[06:53] <jumentous> hey all, i'm setting up a reprepro server that will contain a partial mirror that clients will use but i also want to do a net install from there,
[06:53] <jumentous> i get no kernel modules were found and when i look up anna's source this apparently means that there is no kernel-version string on the packages,
[06:54] <jumentous> however when i check packages.gz out on a real server there is also no kernel-version attribute
[06:54] <jumentous> anyone have an idea of what may be going on
[07:18] <icarus901> jumentous, i suggest apt-cacher; you can quiet that message with "d-i anna/no_kernel_modules boolean true" in a preseed.cfg
[07:23] <jumentous> i haven't seen apt-cacher but the problem is that i will later need to add my own packages to it, as well as control what updates are let through rather than the simple apt-proxy
[07:23] <jumentous> will look at cacher
[07:25] <jumentous> icarus901, it was more about why would anna not recognise the kernel packages when they are essentially copied off upstream and can i debug it somehow
[07:26] <icarus901> unfortunately it's not something with which i am familiar beyond that point
[07:27] <jumentous> ok, do you know if Kernel-Version is a package tag as it doesn't appear to be
[12:31] <hardaway> cjwatson: How was your holiday?
[12:33] <hardaway> cjwatson: Don't know if you noticed but ubiquity is still at version 1.13.4 when other cds are at 1.13.6--the manifest has not changed from June 15
[12:41] <jerroome> hi guys
[12:45] <jerroome> I have to install a low memory system, but the installation takes more than 2 hours, it hangs at localedef, gen etc ... . I tried to remove the executable locale files with early command, but it's always recreated. does anyone have an idea how I could fasten up the install process ? I thought maybe booting with a liveusb, partitionning the drives and then copy the content of each partition from a previously installed syst
[12:45] <jerroome> like to reach an installation which takes less than 30 min
[12:51] <cjwatson> hardaway: like I told you, just wait until it manages to build. It's not a problem with ubiquity, it's a problem with UNR builds in general right now. I believe it's scheduled to be fixed today but it is not in my hands so there is no point asking me about it
[12:52] <cjwatson> jerroome: try 'd-i pkgsel/language-packs string' (i.e. set that question to empty) in your preseed file
[12:52] <cjwatson> should work as of jaunty, probably not before that
[12:52] <jerroome> that's what I'm doing, but it still hangs at 75%
[12:53] <jerroome> isn't it possible to just skip language locals ?
[12:53] <cjwatson> don't know then, sorry. feel free to post to the mailing list with a complete description of your setup, logs, etc. ...
[12:53] <cjwatson> jerroome: skip> that's what that preseed is supposed to do!
[12:53] <cjwatson> if it isn't working, I consider it a bug that needs to be investigated
[12:54] <jerroome> would you agree to have a look at my preseed file ?
[12:54] <jerroome> and pxe ?
[12:54] <jerroome> I would pastebin it ....
[12:54] <cjwatson> I'm happy to have a look
[12:54] <jerroome> ok, just one second
[12:54] <cjwatson> though I'm busy with other coding work right now
[13:00] <jerroome> In case you find some time pxe : http://paste.ubuntu.com/206195/ and preseed : http://paste.ubuntu.com/206199/
[13:01] <jerroome> early_command part is a try to skip locales in an quite unproper way ....
[13:03] <cjwatson> I need syslog from an installation attempt too, preferably with DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer on the kernel command line
[13:04] <cjwatson> if the installation attempt completes successfully (even if slowly), the syslog will be saved in /var/log/installer/syslog
[13:05] <jerroome> I'm installing it on a faster machine and pastebin that too
[13:51] <jerroome> cjwatson : I was completely wrong, I wasn't taking the right preseed file, the option works fine ..... sorry for the time you took to look at my file ....
[13:54] <cjwatson> cool, glad to hear that it works now
[14:00] <jerroome> I should have looked my apache log more precisely :), but it's cool that it's working now
[14:01] <jerroome> do you know if it's possible to fasten up the part " configuring linux modules" at 83 % ?
[14:02] <cjwatson> "fasten" doesn't mean what you think it means in English :-)
[14:02] <cjwatson> I have a phone call now, will get to you after that
[14:03] <jerroome> your right, I don't want to fasten, but to make it quicker :)
[14:04] <jerroome> no problem, thank you for all the help you already gave me
[14:36] <cjwatson> jerroome: I'm not sure what step you're talking about there. Are you translating that back from French? If so, could you just give me the French text?
[14:36] <cjwatson> Hard to grep for approximate text you see ...
[14:39] <jerroome> I can't give you the exact text, but which packages take long time
[14:39] <jerroome> it starts with linux-image-generic_<IP_ADDRESS>.25_i386.deb
[14:39] <jerroome> until linux-generic_<IP_ADDRESS>.25_i386.deb
[14:40] <jerroome> no
[14:40] <jerroome> from linux-generic_<IP_ADDRESS>.25_i386.deb on, it takes more than 20 minutes to pass to the next get
[14:41] <jerroome> the next step is selecting and installing software
[14:42] <jerroome> does that help you out ?
[14:45] <cjwatson> well, that's probably building the initramfs
[14:46] <cjwatson> there's not a lot I can do to help you there
[14:46] <cjwatson> it's just not terribly quick
[14:46] <jerroome> ok
[14:47] <cjwatson> most of the relevant code there is in kernel packaging, initramfs-tools, etc., not in the installer
[14:49] <jerroome> so I can't change anything about it  ?
[14:50] <cjwatson> I think it's unlikely, sorry
[14:51] <cjwatson> at least I don't know how you might
[14:51] <jerroome> ok
[14:52] <jerroome> only a last question :) shouldn't the installer skip to install language-pack-en ?
[14:52] <cjwatson> no
[14:53] <cjwatson> we wanted to have that always installed to make support easier - in particular we can guarantee that the en_US.UTF-8 locale always exists which (unfortunately) is a useful property to be able to assume
[14:54] <jerroome> do you know what a fast install time is for a 64MB machine with a 664MHz cpu ?
[14:54] <cjwatson> jerroome: for a longer version of this answer, see https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2009-February/006884.html
[14:54] <cjwatson> jerroome: no, I don't
[14:58] <jerroome> thank you cjwatson
[14:58] <jerroome> and have a nice day