[Bug 481564] Re: Using _ in account name causes installer on Live CD to show error dialog not possible to remove

[Anders Christensen]

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Using _ in account name causes installer on Live CD to show error
  dialog not possible to remove

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubiquity

  I downloaded the 9.10 ISO image from www.ubuntu.com and "burned" to a
  memory card.

  This booted without problem.'

  Then I tried to install Ubuntu on the harddrive in this computer and
  everything up to creating an account worked fine.

  However when I created an account I tried to add an _ in it. This has
  worked on all Unix variants I have used and still use (including my
  Fedora installation, previous Red Hat installations, Debian variants
  and so on).

  However Ubuntu showed me an Error dialog saying the account name was
  incorrect.

  Upon closing this dialog it automatically was shown again and when
  closing it popped up again and again. No matter how I tried to get rid
  of it it always came back. My final solution was to use the terminal
  to kill the offending process and restart.

  Beside the very annoying of not being possible to create an account
  with _ in it (which is what I have on my other Linux and even OS X
  machines) the program not being able to go back to a "correcting"
  state is very user unfriendly.

  I have no idea if this is really the correct component. The process I
  killed was called ubiquity so I might not be too far off but there was
  no real way of knowing if it was correct or not and I could not really
  get Launchpad to behave when trying to report the issue.

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