[Bug 1215927] [NEW] Impossible to install via many remote KVMs

[Chris Jones]

Public bug reported:

The default Linux keyboard repeat rate is set about as fast as it can be
(in terms of the timeouts it will respect). This makes it almost, if not
entirely, impossible to successfully and accurately complete a server
(or desktop alternate) install over any kind of network latency (e.g. a
KVM session to a machine on another continent).

At the very least the server install image should include kbdrate, but
ideally the installer image would simply drop the timeout to levels more
reasonable in a world of fixed circumference and optic fibres.

** Affects: debian-installer (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Description changed:

  The default Linux keyboard repeat rate is set about as fast as it can be
- (in terms of the timeouts it will respect). This makes it almost
- impossible to successfully and accurately complete an install over any
- kind of network latency (e.g. a KVM session to a machine on another
- continent).
+ (in terms of the timeouts it will respect). This makes it almost, if not
+ entirely, impossible to successfully and accurately complete a server
+ (or desktop alternate) install over any kind of network latency (e.g. a
+ KVM session to a machine on another continent).
  
- At the very lease the server install image should include kbdrate, but
+ At the very least the server install image should include kbdrate, but
  ideally the installer image would simply drop the rate to levels more
  reasonable in a world of fixed circumference and optic fibres.

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Title:
  Impossible to install via many remote KVMs

Status in “debian-installer” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The default Linux keyboard repeat rate is set about as fast as it can
  be (in terms of the timeouts it will respect). This makes it almost,
  if not entirely, impossible to successfully and accurately complete a
  server (or desktop alternate) install over any kind of network latency
  (e.g. a KVM session to a machine on another continent).

  At the very least the server install image should include kbdrate, but
  ideally the installer image would simply drop the timeout to levels
  more reasonable in a world of fixed circumference and optic fibres.

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