[Bug 1439862] Re: provide any feedback during swap formatting in ubiquity

[Phillip Susi]

What makes you think that dd has anything to do with formatting swap?
Swap is formatted with mkswap, which only has to write the header so it
only takes a second.


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

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Title:
  provide any feedback during swap formatting in ubiquity

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Data is written to the swap partition with `dd`. Depending on the size
  of the swap partition and the speed of the HDD the process can take up
  to 30 or 60 (theoretically multiples of that). During that time
  there's no feedback for the user at all (the process is started in the
  background after entering user account details) and the installer
  seems hanging.

  That leaves BTW a horrible first impression of Ubuntu...

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.21.17
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-10.10-generic 3.19.2
  Uname: Linux 3.19.0-10-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.16.2-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.356
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Thu Apr  2 23:32:36 2015
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Beta amd64 (20150326)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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