sounder 8 install report

[Jamie Wilkinson]

[ this got blocked because of the attachments, so find them at
  http://spacepants.org/dead.letter and
  http://spacepants.org/base-config.log.gz ]

This one time, at band camp, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>> The gdm screen had 'ubuntu debugging artwork' on it.  Same for the
>> splash screen after logging in.
>
>Yes, these are placeholders until we incorporate fancier artwork.

Ok, that's cool (I figured from the word "debugging" but I didn't
realise that the entire icon theme was that way, goo to hear it's a
priority).

>> * The background doesn't fit across the widescreen of the powerbook.  I
>>   go to turn it off, and discover there's a widescreen version of the
>>   same image in the backgrounds already.  Is it possible to set that
>>   based on the X server config?
>
>I'm not sure offhand whether this can be easily automated.   Sebastien, do
>you know?

*wild stab in the dark* I was thinking that the background is set in gconf,
and that we know the resolution from the X magic configuration, so if
resolution looks like it's widescreen (or even just matches the res of the
widescreen background) then set the gconf key for the background
appropriately.

>> * Ok time to test out this volume manager everyone's talking about.
>>   Plugged in the external firewire disk... nothing.  Check dmesg,
>>   not even the kernel knows about the new device :(
>>
>> * Open Computer folder (from icon on desktop), open "CD ROM 1" (whose
>>   icon is a rectangle?  WTF?)  get a Mount Error dialog.  Expand "Show
>>   more details" and get "mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist"
>>   :(
>
>OK, after writing some debugging suggestions here, I see you found the
>problem below, so deleted. :-)

I found a solution, rebooting, but I'd really expected to be able to use
everything after logging in the first time.  If we need a second reboot
to do anything fancy then I should be asked (explicitly, not in a hidden
debconf message) to reboot.

>> * The external disk also has a USB connector, so try that instead.
>>   dmesg shows the kernel recognising the new mass storage device.
>>   There's a single partition, fs is ext3, however:
>> 
>> FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
>> VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda1.
>> udf: registering filesystem
>> UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
>> Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
>> VFS: Can't find a Minix or Minix V2 filesystem on device sda1.
>> HFS+-fs: unable to find HFS+ superblock
>> VFS: Can't find a HFS filesystem on dev sda1.
>> EXT3-fs: Unrecognized mount option "uid=1000" or missing value
>> ReiserFS: sda1: warning: unknown mount option "uid=1000"
>> XFS: unknown mount option [uid].
>> jfs: Unrecognized mount option "uid=1000"  or missing value
>
>File this as a bug against pmount.  "EXT3-fs: Unrecognized mount option
>"uid=1000" or missing value" is the noteworthy bit.

#1124

>> * Notice a /dead.letter containing some messages from debconf... one of
>>   them mentions udev and rebooting, so I reboot.  Kind of hard to find
>>   though.
>
>Can you send a copy of the message about udev, and a copy of
>/var/log/base-config.log?

Sure, attached both the dead.letter in which I found the debconf
messages, and base-config.log

>> * /var/log/mail.log full of fatal: open database /etc/aliases.db: No
>>   such file or directory.  run newaliases at install time?  set root
>>   alias to first user?
>
>File bug against postfix, please.

#1123

>> * procmail installed, but mailbox_command is not set :(
>
>Likewise; I think that's supposed to work.

#1126

The bug reports are a bit brief, I still haven't worked out where my
middle button is...

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