Installing drivers on USB sticks

[Brian Murray]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 04:04:40PM -0800, Brian Murray wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 11:53:54PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> > Hello Brian,
> > 
> > Brian Murray [2011-01-04 14:08 -0800]:
> > > I've recently discovered hundreds of bug reports regarding people trying
> > > to install drivers (bcmwl, fglrx, nvidia) on their Live USB version of
> > > Ubuntu and it failing[1].
> > 
> > There are two main reasons for this:
> > 
> >  - update-initramfs not working (http://launchpad.net/bugs/557023)
> > 
> >  - There is too little RAM on a live system to download, build,
> >    install, and run large drivers like nvidia and fglrx. Therefore
> >    these should be disabled on a live system. This is tracked in
> >    http://launchpad.net/bugs/685017, and I'll fix it for alpha-2.
> > 
> > It would still be nice to fix 557023 so that this at least works with
> > smaller drivers like broadcom-wl (this doesn't actually need
> > an initramfs update, I believe, but it might happen anyway).
> > 
> > > [3] http://launchpad.net/bugs/696656
> > 
> > Duped.
> 
> This was an example of a whole class of bugs that have been reported in
> Launchpad.  Is it also safe to make those duplicates of bug 685017?

Actually thinking about this more.  It is easy to find these
apport-package bugs, reported from LiveMedia and with "empty"
DpkgTerminalLog files, in Launchpad after they are reported.  However,
one can't really write a bug pattern for them as we are not looking for
a specific string but rather the absence of information.  How could we
go about preventing these reports on Maverick from continuing to come
in?  Would an SRU of the fix for bug 557023 do it?

-- 
Brian Murray
Ubuntu Bug Master
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