Colony 3 report

[Colin Watson]

On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 09:11:46PM +0200, Ivan Krstic wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for your report. Could you file a bug on the 'kbd-chooser'
component about this, please?

> > 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?

Erm, not really; it's supposed to be "Resize [name of partition] and use
freed space", where [name of partition] might be something like
/dev/discs/disc0/part1. Changing that to "a partition" would be getting
rid of rather valuable information for some people.

Did it really say just "/part" there?

> > - 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]'

This was due to a combination of two bugs, both of which I fixed a few
days ago.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]