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Re: Preparing d-i Stretch Alpha 4



On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 02:43:48PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> (2015-10-25):
>> On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 12:25:25PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>> >Hi Steve,
>> >
>> >Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> (2015-10-24):
>> >> Steve, feel free to start building images after the 1352Z dinstall and
>> >> associated mirror pulse which should propagate this new d-i version.
>> >
>> >It looks like the build finished. Any chance you could sign stuff and
>> >put it into place if it looks good to you? Just trying to figure out
>> >whether we're announcing the release today or tomorrow. I'd welcome
>> >“release announce” style description of the CD-side changes if you have
>> >some extra minutes to kill. ;) (I'll be working on the rest in the
>> >meanwhile.)
>> 
>> Just doing some testing now.
>
>Perfect, thanks. I'll get back to this in a few hours.

Initial testing doesn't look good - 2 tests on DVD#1 trying to install
Gnome, neither starts the desktop. Trying to get logs out now....

Gnome-session has crapped out:

Oct 25 15:00:11 debian gnome-session[532]: (gnome-shell:546): mutter-ERROR **: could not find drm kms device
Oct 25 15:00:11 debian kernel: traps: gnome-shell[546] trap int3 ip:7f231075788b sp:7ffc85f4ef20 error:0
Oct 25 15:00:11 debian gnome-session[532]: WARNING: Application 'gnome-shell-wayland.desktop' killed by signal 5
Oct 25 15:00:11 debian gnome-session[532]: gnome-session[532]: WARNING: Application 'gnome-shell-wayland.desktop' killed by signal 5
Oct 25 15:00:11 debian /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-wayland-session[516]: Activating service name='ca.desrt.dconf'
Oct 25 15:00:11 debian gnome-session[532]: Unrecoverable failure in required component gnome-shell-wayland.desktop
Oct 25 15:00:11 debian gdm-launch-environment][504]: pam_unix(gdm-launch-environment:session): session closed for user Debian-gdm
Oct 25 15:00:11 debian gdm3[486]: GdmDisplay: display lasted 1.066216 seconds
Oct 25 15:00:11 debian gdm3[486]: Child process 504 was already dead.
Oct 25 15:00:11 debian gdm3[486]: Unable to kill session worker process

I'm about to try other desktops.

>Given we're basically only trimming the CD set, I suppose most changes
>needed on the documentation side should appear in installation-guide?
>(I suppose it might talk a bit about CD sets, alternative desktops etc.)

Yeah, that will need some updates (not happened yet). I'll take a look
shortly, but don't wait for that to block this release.

>There are also per-directory headers on cdimage, but those were touched
>by one of the commits in debian-cd IIRC.

Yup.

>The website will still point to the existing CD directories, but the
>contents will be way lighter. No broken links as far as I can imagine?
>
>Does anybody see something that might be missing on this topic?
>
>Mraw,
>KiBi.


-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
Is there anybody out there?


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