Colony 3 report

[Ivan Krstic]

Hi,

Reran the colony 3 install.

> More annoyingly, going back to the
> language selection and selecting English did not resolve the keyboard
> situation

Steps to replicate:
1. From the initial 'select language screen', pick Croatian.
2. On the resulting 'Your keyboard is' screen, hit 'Go Back'.
3. Now pick English in the language screen.

You wind up at the 'Your keyboard is' screen, but it says 'No keyboard
to configure', you can't select it by saying 'Select from full keyboard
list', and you can't find the layout by pressing keys.

Furthermore, if you decide to stick with Croatian, there is no way that
I can see to proceed with the installation (can't pick a keyboard). This
is a pretty critical bug.

> There was a 'Resize /part and use freed space' option
> that I didn't try (/part? What's /part?)

Still in the dark as to what that means. Can this be reworded to say
e.g. "Resize a partition and use freed space", which is what I'm
assuming it's supposed to mean?

> - I like the new progress bar for package installation after the first
> boot. However, it eventually froze on a specific package [...]
> I will repeat the installation and post again with
> this information.

Froze again at the exact same point. Installer says 'Downloading file 2
of 8 (0s remaining)', and sits frozen at 91%. The last of apt-get's
output on tty4 is:

'The following NEW packages will be installed:
 aspell-en language-support-en mozilla-firefox-locale-e--gb
myslepp-en-gb myspell-en-us openoffice.org2-l10n-en-gb wamerican wbritish
0 packages upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 421 not
upgraded. Need to get 2989kB/3332kB of archives. After unpacking 9826kB
will be used. Writing extended state information... Done
0% [Working]'

I'm not attaching logs unless someone asks for them, because they look
pretty pedestrian and nothing strikes me as out of the ordinary. Killing
the aptitude process from another console gets the process moving along;
until killed, aptitude seems to be stuck in read(0, ...).

Let me know if I need to file bugs about this or any of the other things
I mentioned in the original e-mail.

-IK