[03:22] <Ian_Daniher>  Hey all, I'm trying to make a live USB key from a custom ubuntu-based .iso. I'm unable to get the usb-creator-gtk program to do respond to any button clicks or, connectedly, create a USB disk.
[03:23] <Ian_Daniher> using version 0.2.22 on a fresh Lucid install
[03:23] <Ian_Daniher> the ISO image I'm attempting to live-USB can be found here: http://teach.laptop.org/~it/USR-i386-20100208.iso
[03:23] <Ian_Daniher> Thanks!
[03:24] <Ian_Daniher> *and yes, I tried running usb-creator-gtk as root
[08:56] <ev> Ian_Daniher: don't run usb-creator-gtk as root, it's entirely unnecessary.  It has a privileged process that it talks to over dbus for such tasks.
[08:57] <ev> Ian_Daniher: can you pastebin your ~/.usbcreator.log
[10:36] <davmor2> ev: am I being a dipstick? How do I put the install into debug mode when I don't get the grub options in the first place
[10:39] <ev> davmor2: can you elaborate?  Which grub options?  Ubiquity or Wubi?
[10:41] <davmor2> ev: so I've installed the windows side of wubi,  I've rebooted windows, as soon as grub kicks in it drops into grub shell
[10:42] <davmor2> ev: So normally I would select from the grub menu the debug option and carry on with the install but I don't have that option
[10:42] <ev> oh, hold down shift
[10:42] <the-dude> cjwatson: whats the status of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netcfg/+bug/218965
[10:42] <ubot2> Launchpad bug 218965 in netcfg (Debian) (and 1 other project) "preseeding hostname doesn't work in a network install (affects: 1) (heat: 11)" [Unknown,New]
[10:43] <ev> before you get to grub
[10:44] <davmor2> ev: nope tried that it's dropping straight into grub shell
[10:49] <ev> davmor2: can you go back into windows, edit the grub config under C:\Ubuntu to have 'set debug=all' at the top, then reboot.
[10:50] <davmor2> that I can probably do.   Need to reboot this machine biab
[11:05] <davmor2> ev: okay so added the set debug=all at the top of C:\ubuntu\install\boot\grub\grub.cfg rebooted straight into grub shell again
[11:07] <ev> was it more verbose in its output though?
[11:14] <davmor2> nope identical from what I can see.   There is no disk started so no files logged so I don't know if I can get output from grub shell itself
[11:19] <ev> odd
[11:23] <davmor2> I'm wondering if grub just can't find the disk and is just stopping dead
[11:23] <ev> what do you mean by, "there is no disk started"?
[11:26] <cjwatson> suggests that it isn't managing to read that grub.cfg
[11:27] <cjwatson> the-dude: not currently high on my list
[11:40] <davmor2> cjwatson: could be
[11:43] <the-dude> cjwatson: can I help in any way?
[11:44] <ev> davmor2: can you file a bug so we can track this?
[11:44] <cjwatson> the-dude: probably best to raise it on debian-boot, since it's a long-standing bug there too
[11:45] <cjwatson> see the linked Debian bug
[11:46] <davmor2> ev: yeap
[11:46] <ev> davmor2: cheers
[12:27] <davmor2> ev: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/wubi/+bug/600578
[12:27] <ubot2> Launchpad bug 600578 in wubi "installer drops into grub shell after rebooting from windows. (affects: 1) (heat: 6)" [Undecided,New]
[12:28] <ev> thanks
[12:32] <cjwatson> ev: did you have a chance to look at bug 588705?  it's still in the alpha-2 release notes, and we'll release with it, but I don't want to carry that note over too often
[12:32] <ubot2> Launchpad bug 588705 in debian-installer (Ubuntu) "maverick alpha1 alternate - impossible creation of encrypted /Home (affects: 1) (heat: 139)" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/588705
[12:35] <ev> cjwatson: no, I've been head-down in development mode.  But as you suggest this is important, and I've marked it in my calendar to make sure I address it this/next week.
[12:40] <cjwatson> thanks
[12:40] <the-dude> cjwatson: im going to rebuild initrd with the provided patch and see if that works
[14:25] <CIA-97> debian-installer: cjwatson * r1327 ubuntu/ (build/util/get-packages debian/changelog): Support building with new apt mirror method.
[14:29] <cjwatson> ev: you might be clear, I can't reproduce the encrypted home bug
[14:30] <cjwatson> (I ran out of stuff I could face doing, so tried it)
[14:30] <ev> heh, hooray
[14:31] <ev> I'll still give it a go, see if I can reproduce it
[14:31] <cjwatson> yeah