[Bug 1012821] Re: "Press F to attempt to fix the errors" message is not totally visible in 800x600 resolution

[Steve Langasek]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 945517 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/945517

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 945517
   part of fsck error message is rendered offscreen during startup

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Title:
  "Press F to attempt to fix the errors" message is not totally visible
  in 800x600 resolution

Status in “mountall” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Reported by a French user: http://forum.ubuntu-
  fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=925761

  On Ubuntu 12.04, 800x600 resolution, the message :
  "Appuyer sur F pour tenter de corriger les erreurs, I les ignorer, S pour ignorer le montage, ou M pour la récupération manuelle"
  which corresponds in English to:
  "Press F to attempt to fix the errors, I to ignore, S to skip mounting, or M for manual recovery" (95 characters)

  was only partially displayed:
  "réparer les erreurs i pour ignorer s pour passer le montage m pour" (66 characters)
  which corresponds in English to:
  "fix the errors, I to ignore, S to skip mounting, or M for"

  
  As you can see, the start and the end of the string was not displayed.

  As the displayed string was only 66 characters, I guess that:
  -  the problem would happen also with the English string (which is 95 characters) and all other translations larger than 66 characters.
  - a WORKAROUND would be to reduce the English string to 66 characters, AND indicate to the translators that the string must be <=66 characters.
  - a FIX would be to modify the 'mountall' code in order to display more than 66 characters in 800x600

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