Installation report: Ubuntu desktop 20080723 amd64

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:11:41AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman [2008-07-23 14:27 +0100]:
> >  * I didn't see usplash during boot (no bug filed)

(251227)

> I uploaded a fixed usplash-theme-ubuntu yesterday, which was the cause
> of the "no usable theme found" problem. usplash is still terminally
> broken for me when I try to boot with it on 2.6.26-4, I only get
> red-white stripes. It works fine if I boot on 2.6.24-20, or start it
> out of the running system on 2.6.26-4, so I guess it's either a kernel
> bug or something is missing in the initramfs.

I haven't tried the new version yet, will let you know.

> I already tried all possible combinations of blacklisting uvesafb and
> installing v86d. The boot with usplash just gets differently broken
> with every combination :(

uvesafb was much worse for me (crashes).  Better to leave v86d uninstalled,
and the kernel should probably stop loading it by default.

> >  * Apport was not triggered for the Ubiquity crash, so no crash report was
> >    generated and I had to file the bug report manually, later, with
> >    incomplete info.  It's disabled in /etc/default/apport, but I thought
> >    Ubiquity was an exception to this.
> 
> casper still tries to enable the gconf keys, but we now use the
> /etc/default/apport file for disabling (since that won't waste a lot
> of resources on crashes in stable releases). I'll fix this, as soon as
> "bzr get lp:~ubuntu-core-dev/casper/trunk" likes me again (it
> currently crashes with a "Corrupt Knit error blabla some ancient GNU
> arch revision; figuring out with the #bzr guys).

(bug 246880)

> Also, I fixed the apport retracers last night, so I'll reenable apport
> by default right after Alpha-3.

Hooray!

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 - mdz