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persiaheh.  There's a race condition on liveCD boot, so that some shells get the disclaimer, and some don't.06:36
persiacjwatson: Just to confirm, rev 3854 did fix the issue we'd been seeing with partman-uboot09:15
cjwatsonpersia: good, thanks09:16
evmichaelforrest: any word from Amanda?09:35
michaelforrestev: I am struggling to get copy written and she seems to be to busy to talk face to face :(09:35
evyikes, okay09:43
michaelforrestev: ok I have a layout and I am now waiting for legal feedback.11:13
evhooray11:13
ogracjwatson, ev, what would you guys think about something that calls 'date -s "<date of image build>"' to casper (at least in cases where the system date is < builddate)11:15
ograits one date we know for sure and will fix a lot of the 01.01.1970 issues i guess11:16
cjwatsonogra: I thought the intent was to put this somewhere central, like hwclock; I've discussed that with Keybuk before11:26
cjwatsoncasper is the wrong place, since this problem is not confined to live CD booting; you can get the same thing if the PRAM battery on a Mac goes, for instance11:26
cjwatsonand, as discussed with Keybuk, using a date such as that of the image build is unhelpful.  What we should do is use a single known static date which is clearly wrong but at least valid; that way you can take one look at a bug report and say "aha, I know, your problem is *this*"11:27
cjwatsonthe equivalent of 0xDEADBEEF in C code11:27
persiacjwatson: The trick is that some stuff breaks if the system clock is older than the filesystem creation time, which means that 0xDEADBEEF either needs to be arbitrarily in the future, or that it doesn't matter if we do that.11:43
cjwatsonthere are different degrees of breakage11:45
persiaTrue.11:46
OmahnHas anyone else come across bug #530632 when upgrading 8.04 to 10.04?11:56
ubottuLaunchpad bug 530632 in initramfs-tools "Upgrading from 8.04 to 10.04 fails on update-initramfs" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/53063211:56
evmichaelforrest: http://people.canonical.com/~evand/tmp/ubiquity-greeter-2.png - does this look okay?  I realize the language list is a bit narrow, that's next on my list to fix.11:58
michaelforrestev: yeah that's cool, but definitely sort out the language list :)11:59
evwill do11:59
persiaev: Do feel free to use 800 horizontal pixels if you run into otherwise insoluable issues.11:59
michaelforresthas the window got narrower?11:59
* persia is delighted with the shrinking ubiquity12:00
cjwatsonOmahn: we mostly only do initial installation here12:00
michaelforrestev: it would look a bit more balanced if the window was wider12:00
Omahncjwatson: No problem. That works fine ;-)12:00
evmichaelforrest: okay, I'll see what I can do there12:06
ogracjwatson, ah, i didnt know you were on it already12:17
CIA-3ubiquity: evand * r3857 ubiquity/ (3 files in 3 dirs):13:21
CIA-3ubiquity: Set the width of the language selection treeview to the minimum13:21
CIA-3ubiquity: required to fit the contents. Do not allow it to expand.13:21
CIA-3ubiquity: evand * r3858 ubiquity/ (10 files in 6 dirs):14:20
CIA-3ubiquity: Move the greeter functionality into ubiquity itself, still14:20
CIA-3ubiquity: accessible with the maybe-ubiquity boot option.14:20
cjwatsonI'm working on the corresponding gfxboot stuff14:24
evawesome14:28
CIA-3ubiquity: evand * r3859 ubiquity/debian/changelog: LP bug reference for feature freeze exception request.14:29
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cjwatsoneverything done but drawing the access icon ...14:45
ograyay !15:14
* ogra sees oem-config-gtk finish for the first time in a rootstock image15:14
ograthere is one ugly error message though about language packs not being installable (which is no wonder since i dont have NM in the image, so no network)15:15
cjwatsonmichaelforrest: how does http://people.ubuntu.com/~cjwatson/tmp/initial-icon.png look to you, as a first cut of the boot screen?17:43
michaelforrestcjwatson: I don't think it meets the remit of telling the user they can do something here17:45
michaelforrestcjwatson: and the icon would definitely need to be smaller and monochrome17:46
cjwatsondo you have a suggestion?  I thought this was what we agreed the other day17:46
michaelforrestyeah I wasn't 100% sure what you were envisioning but you seemed to have clarity so now I know what you were talking about doing17:46
michaelforrestI think we will probably need to put some english text next to the icon17:47
cjwatsonboo17:47
michaelforrestyeah, or just not have anything really17:47
persiaIs the icon parseable by a screen-reader?17:47
cjwatsonno17:47
cjwatsonno screen reader will be running; this is the CD boot loader17:48
michaelforrestso we were looking at doing [keyboard icon] = [accessibility icon]17:48
* persia isn't sure who it helps17:48
michaelforrestbut I got stuck trying to find a keyboard icon17:48
cjwatsonhttp://people.canonical.com/~cjwatson/tmp/initial-icon.png reload, smaller and grayscale, modulo image artifacts17:49
cjwatsonpersia: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lucid/GfxbootUpdate17:49
michaelforrestcjwatson: how do I get that people.canonical.com thing working?17:49
michaelforrestis it chinstrap?17:50
cjwatsonno, the machine is currently called lillypilly17:50
cjwatsonhttps://wiki.canonical.com/MachineOverview, and ssh to people.canonical.com17:50
cjwatsonmkdir public_html17:50
cjwatsonand copy stuff there17:50
persiaOh, if F5 works, then I suppose it doesn't matter17:50
* persia quiesces17:50
cjwatsonpersia: pressing any key at this drops through to the previous style of boot screen17:51
cjwatsonmichaelforrest: the one on Applications -> Preferences -> Keyboard maybe?  it's a little hard to see ...17:52
cjwatsonbut it is sort of recognisable17:52
michaelforrestyeah I think it'll have to be!17:53
michaelforrestI'm doing a mockup quickly17:53
michaelforrestif these damn adobe products will cooperate17:53
cjwatsonhttp://people.canonical.com/~cjwatson/tmp/initial-icon-keyboard.png - not brilliant17:54
cjwatsonhttp://people.canonical.com/~cjwatson/tmp/initial-icon-keyboard-bigger.png - maybe works better a little bigger?17:55
davmor2cjwatson, ev:  Todays ubiq seems to be stuck at "looking for other operating systems" this is a whole drive install so there is only lucid on it.18:03
michaelforrestcjwatson: I've emailed you18:03
michaelforrest(http://assets.grimaceworks.com/boot-screen.png )18:07
cjwatsonmichaelforrest: nifty; can I just extract that bar across the bottom and slam it into my image?18:07
michaelforrestcjwatson: thanks - yeah if that's easiest18:08
cjwatsonno point in trying to reproduce it in code, I feel18:08
michaelforrestI realigned the ubuntu logo too18:08
cjwatsonhmm, not sure about that18:08
michaelforrestideally it will be vertically centered in the black18:08
cjwatsonif you do that, the logo will have to be moved up when the full menu is displayed18:08
cjwatsonseems a bit awkward?18:08
michaelforrestoh the damn full menu18:08
michaelforrestI really don't mind that18:08
michaelforrestbecause the full menu is not on the primary journey18:09
cjwatsonI do, 'cos I have to write the horrible horrible code to move it around ;-) but OK ...18:09
michaelforrestobviously I want you to animate it into position and then fade in the menu l)18:09
cjwatsondie ;-)18:09
michaelforrestmark says he wants it!18:09
michaelforrestwhat can I do! ;)18:09
cjwatsonhttp://paste.ubuntu.com/387145/ code so far18:09
michaelforresthope nobody comes out with 72bit and 128bit computing any time soon then...18:10
cjwatsonthat bit?  that's legacy from suse, don't think it does anything on Ubuntu, I just haven't got round to removing it18:10
michaelforrestanyway it looks like the sort of code I'd write ruby code to write for me rather than writing it directly :)18:11
cjwatsonthat sounds even harder :)18:11
michaelforrestbut so much more maintainable18:11
michaelforrestbut I digress18:11
cjwatsonnot really, this is a real special-purpose programming language18:11
cjwatsonit's not pretty, but I'm not sure writing a second-layer compiler for it would cause me to get things done any quicker :-)18:12
cjwatsonI suppose I can slice out a defined area of the background image and shift it down a bit18:12
persiaI believe Ubuntu can run on some Crusoe chips (at least old versions could) which were 256-bit internally.18:12
cjwatsonas a quick hack18:12
davmor2cjwatson: bug 530861  I don't know why this has just seeming stopped doing anything,  I'm hoping it's not a race condition again cause I know how much you like those :)18:22
ubottuLaunchpad bug 530861 in ubiquity "Ubiquity has been looking for OS's for the last hour" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/53086118:22
cjwatsondavmor2: not having looked at the bug yet, it sounds like that blkid spin that's been reported18:25
cjwatsondavmor2: look at 'ps axf' - is blkid in there, somewhere under os-prober?18:25
cjwatsonunfortunately I can't reproduce it on my own systems or I'd have fixed it already :(18:26
davmor2cjwatson: yeap18:26
davmor2blkid -o value -s TYPE /dev/sda218:27
* cjwatson sends it off to util-linux18:27
cjwatsonI guess I'll have to try to zen-debug that one18:27
davmor2cjwatson: I'll restart it after tea and see if I can reproduce if I can, I can always open up ssh again so you have access to a non working box18:29
cjwatsonmichaelforrest: ok, reproduced your mockup18:32
cjwatsondavmor2: if you can reproduce it by simply running 'sudo blkid -o value -s TYPE /dev/sda2', could you leave it in that state?18:33
cjwatsonmichaelforrest: committed; awaiting feature freeze exception18:42
cjwatsonthanks!18:42
cjwatsonev: reassigned the closest associated work item from foundations-lucid-gfxboot-update to you18:44
evcool, thanks18:48
davmor2cjwatson: will do19:03
michaelforrestcjwatson: amazing19:06
davmor2cjwatson: just ran the blkid command and it exited after a second.  Retrying the install.  However I was overwriting vista before so if it works this time I'll drop vista back on and see if that is a factor19:13
cjwatsonhm19:14
davmor2meh worked19:24
davmor2cjwatson: should ureadahead be running on the CD?19:25
davmor2cjwatson: I'm assuming that ureadahead is similar to sreadahead that caused the nice race conditions in the installer for karmic19:26
davmor2cjwatson: I can reproduce the issue installing over vista but now need to sod off.  2 things.  1 could it be because sda2 is in use by vista as a really partition and ubuntu as a logical? 2 I'll do it again tomorrow and hook up ssh properly for you.20:15
evyay, FFe granted21:07
evpreparing an upload now21:07
CIA-3ubiquity: evand * r3860 ubiquity/debian/real-po/ (81 files): debconf-updatepo21:10
cjwatsonI'll do gfxboot-theme-ubuntu later this evening21:10
evcool, thanks21:10
cjwatson(on the n900 now so it'd be tricky from here)21:10
evhaha21:10
CIA-3ubiquity: evand * r3861 ubiquity/ (d-i/manifest debian/changelog debian/control):21:11
CIA-3ubiquity: Automatic update of included source packages: netcfg 1.51ubuntu2,21:11
CIA-3ubiquity: partconf 1.32ubuntu1, partman-base 138ubuntu1.21:11
superm1cjwatson, does all of the artwork in the ubuntu-cdimage branch still need to be updated for that change too then for stuff like xubuntu/mythbuntu/kubuntu?21:19
cjwatsonsuperm1: I don't think so, due to the way I did it21:22
superm1cjwatson, cool :)21:23
superm1although the kubuntu media probably won't want to be booting in maybe-ubiquity mode yet i'd suppose21:23
evI'll work on fixing that tomorrow21:31
CIA-3ubiquity: evand * r3862 ubiquity/debian/changelog: releasing version 2.1.2921:31
cjwatsonsuperm1: yeah, was planning on enabling it image by image - my priorities are the Ubuntu ones, and it may even be that some of the others don't want it because of more complex boot menu requirements23:23
superm1right, sounds sensible23:23
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