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davmor2xivulon: I'm going to have a play with wubi today and I'll comment on bug 43927908:49
ubottuLaunchpad bug 439279 in wubi "There seems to be some instability with the installer" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/43927908:49
xivulondavmor2: thanks most appreciated, I tested it myself and didn't notice any issue08:51
xivulonthe only thing I would like to avoid is the second boot menu (<< cjwatson)08:52
davmor2it is a completely random issue but I know cjwatson was adding some bits to try and fix it so now there are new cd's I thought I'd give it a try :)08:52
xivuloncjwatson, evand, also please double check the list of modules I use for grub2 (Makefile > winboot2), in case there is anything I missed08:53
cjwatsonhmm, so the reason the second boot menu appears is that grub2 has detected another operating system (trivially: Windows), and our current rules are that whenever it does so it shows the menu08:57
cjwatsonwe'll need to think about how to make an exception here08:57
cjwatsonthere isn't a switch I can easily flip to make it not show it, it's a bit trickier than that08:58
evandwe're getting a few reports of a bug where ubiquity crashes around partman_commit, with no error message reported: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/44206009:26
ubottuLaunchpad bug 442060 in ubiquity "ubiquity closes when formatting should be start" [Undecided,New]09:26
evandjust a heads up09:26
evandI'm racking my brain on what could be going on here, as I cannot reproduce this myself09:26
CIA-33debian-installer: cjwatson * r940 hardy-proposed/debian/changelog: No-change rebuild to pick up new kernel.09:27
CIA-33debian-installer: cjwatson * r941 hardy-proposed/debian/changelog: releasing version 20070308ubuntu40.1209:29
evandEven apport failed to pick up anything for the presumed partman_commit crash (bug 442560).  Weird.09:48
ubottuLaunchpad bug 442560 in ubiquity "Installer crashes when trying to partition drive" [Undecided,Incomplete] https://launchpad.net/bugs/44256009:48
davmor2evand: I've not seen it and I've done a few installs on different media and different hw10:00
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davmor2evand: isn't there a switch on wubi to make it's logs more verbose?12:35
evandyes, at the grub menu after the nt bootloader on install select the verbose option12:36
davmor2cool I'll run that I'm getting various hangs12:37
davmor2meh of course now it's in verbose mode it's sailed straight bloody through.12:51
evandcjwatson: does this look okay to you, or should I be more conservative and make it >= 1000? http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/286145/13:06
evandfor the uid and gid, that is13:07
cjwatsonevand: seems fine to me, though I'd quote $uid and $gid in the second test too for safety13:07
evandokay, will do.  Thanks for the review.13:07
CIA-33partman-target: evand * r776 ubuntu/ (debian/changelog finish.d/clear_partitions):13:16
CIA-33partman-target: Do not ever set the UID and GID for the to-be-created user to 0 in13:16
CIA-33partman-target: clear_partitions (LP: #442998).13:16
CIA-33partman-target: evand * r777 ubuntu/debian/changelog: releasing version 64ubuntu213:25
aracjwatson, in latest karmic images, if live is started in Spanish (or karmic is installed in Spanish), the ubuntu main menu appears in Engilsh (Applications, Places, System). The rest (including submenus of those) appear correctly in Spanish. Is that known? If not, which package should i be filling a bug against?14:42
cjwatsonara: I don't know; can you ask the desktop team?14:43
aracjwatson, sure14:43
davmor2this is weird.  Using the verbose mode I don't seem to get any hang ups any more during the linux install.  however it does fail to boot and is really starting to pee me off now :(16:36
* davmor2 is hating wubi with a vengeance, why oh why won't you work17:27
davmor2cjwatson, evand, xivulon: 1 out of 9 installs worked.  All the logs and grub.cfg are identical to those already on line meh17:29
* xivulon sets aside coins for davmor2 beer17:30
xivulonI'll try again tonight I'll see if I can reproduce17:30
cjwatsonevand: did you publish the updated wubi?17:32
cjwatson(with the syncio fix)17:32
davmor2153 is on todays iso17:32
xivulonI tried from trunk with the fix in there17:32
davmor2153 is the same as on the beta I think17:33
cjwatsonneed at least 15417:33
cjwatsonmessage:17:33
cjwatson  Pass rootflags= rather than ROOTFLAGS=, since as far as I can tell17:33
cjwatson  initramfs-tools ignores the latter.17:33
xivulonthis time you can edit the boot line manually17:33
davmor2cjwatson: thanks I'll have a look at the version on tomorrows and try again :)17:35
davmor2if 154 stabilises ubuntu then I'll try across the board and see if they all work17:35
davmor2right I'm calling it a night17:36
evandcjwatson: doing so now18:10
rgreeningevand: ping20:47
evandrgreening: pong20:47
rgreeningevand: care to look at bug 44071920:47
ubottuLaunchpad bug 440719 in usb-creator "usb-creator-kde crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in add_file_source_dialog()" [High,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/44071920:47
rgreeningevand: I think we need to use unicode strings in several places instead of just cast to str20:47
rgreeninglike specifying the source iso could be in a dir with utf820:48
rgreeningevand: this happens in the frontend for kde, gtk and in the helper app.20:49
rgreeningevand: as well as install.py20:49
evandindeed, we should be using unicode instead of ascii strings20:49
evandtransliterating where necessary20:49
rgreeningdo you have time to look at fixing?20:50
evandindeed20:50
evandjust not tonight20:51
rgreeningok. ty20:51
rgreeningwant me to subscribe the bug to you?20:51
rgreeningassign I mean20:51
evandplease do20:52
rgreeningk20:53
rgreeningevand: I have about 5 minutes ... I can change the kde front-end.. do I replace str with unicode? yes? And should it work for both target and source?20:54
evandI suspect many of them are already unicode strings, and therefore the cast is unnecessary.  I'd have to look though.20:55
rgreeningevand: ok. changed all refs in kde frontend to unicode. I'll commit to bzr. you can review...20:56
rgreeningdone20:59
CIA-33usb-creator: rgreening * r228 trunk/ (3 files in 3 dirs): Fix KDE frontend to use unicode rather than str for converting strings.20:59
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