Issues with workarounds for the Xubuntu Live CD ISO images recently announced

[Brian Masinick]

Last night I downloaded whatever the current dapper-live-i386.iso 
happens to be, and I encountered two issues, one of which can be fairly 
easily worked around (but should be fixed), and the other which might be 
worked around only by an expert.

I am not familiar with the reporting mechanisms, so please let me know 
what steps need to be taken.

1. The Live CD boots up fine, but puts you at a login screen, expecting 
a user id.  However, during the splash screen, I noted that automatic 
logins had supposedly been enabled.  They are not working.  My 
workaround was to go into a console, which fortunately was already 
logged in.  From there, I changed the password on both root and ubuntu, 
both for safety's sake and so I would know how to get in.  That 
workaround was OK, but this process needs streamlining so the Live CD 
will be easier for consumers to use.

2. I also attempted an installation.  The menus were really nice and 
clean, and the things to do were obvious, but I noted that the time zone 
routines are missing from the build, which means that the installation 
procedure gets stuck at that step and can proceed no further.  This is a 
show stopper for the installation feature, unless that gets pulled.  I 
advocate fixing this and turning the Live CD into an easy way to get 
into the software to check it out, then install to disk.

Once in, I found the things I tried out work well.  I was on it for 
about three hours and found no other issues.  However, I was doing 
mostly simple stuff, browsing, using a terminal, and basic stuff like 
that.  The build DID work well for these things, so there is much 
promise, once a few of these details get fixed.

Again, please inform me if I need to take additional steps to get these 
issues properly reported.  If they are already reported and taken care 
of, I'd still like to understand the process so I can hopefully be of 
more help going forward.

Good start, let's keep up the momentum and get this software looking 
really great!

Thanks,

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Brian Masinick
masinick at yahoo dot com
Software Testing