Testing Dapper Flight CD 4

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 02:53:22AM +0100, Loïc Martin wrote:
> I'm trying to test Dapper Flight CD 4 (mainly to test Chinese input 
> methods in Dapper) but have a few questions. I'm sorry if it isn't the 
> right list, but I don't see any dapper special list and ubuntu-users 
> isn't for development discussions.

There's a difference between development discussions and discussions of
the release under development; the latter is fine on ubuntu-users.
Redirecting.

> 1 Language support :
> According to 
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2006-February/000050.html
> 
> > * As yet, there is no language, location, or keymap configuration
> >   support. Obviously these are high on the list of things to sort out.
> >
> > * It doesn't deal with installing language packs.
> 
> does this mean that there's no point in testing input methods and 
> Chinese support  in Dapper yet? If so is it planned for Flight 5?

The above caveats apply ONLY to the new live CD installer, Espresso. The
traditional installer has just as much the locale support as it ever
had.

> I'm ready to fill bug reports for dapper but as for now only 8 bugs are 
> listed on https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/dapper/+bugs which leads 
> me to think I've hit the wrong place... and 
> https://launchpad.net/malone/ doesn't allow setting the version of 
> Ubuntu used.

Please just use https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bugs instead, and
mention in your report that you're using Dapper.

> Also, I don't have a clue about which package I should choose for bugs 
> that appears during the installation, and would be grateful for any hint 
> about these.

debian-installer is a good catch-all for these.

> 2.1 pressing F2 after the CD start and choosing French freezes the 
> installer (only F1 works but nothing else). Others languages works even 
> though most don't change anything on the first screen.

That was probably my most frequently reported bug in Flight CD 4, and is
fixed in current daily builds by hitting the French console keymap over
the head a bit harder.

> 2.2 network configuration doesn't work here for an adsl connection that 
> requires a password (Ethernet modem). DHCP fails and manual 
> configuration ask for an IP address (which I don't have since mine is 
> dynamically  attributed).  Never is my password asked, not even my login 
> for the provider.

netcfg wishlist bug, but there's no code at all to support this I'm
afraid; you'll have to configure it after installation.

> 2.3 Chinese (simplified) install never asks for a password, nor does a 
> French install. After install and reboot, I'm stuck at login screen, 
> since I don't have any password (not even an user yet, I think :)

Very strange. If you could extract /var/log/syslog from the installer
before reboot (use "Save debug logs" from the installer's main menu, or
'anna-install openssh-client-udeb' at tty2 and scp it to somewhere more
convenient) and attach it to a bug report on debian-installer, that'd be
good.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]