[10:14] <CIA-28> ubiquity: cjwatson * r4411 ubiquity/ (156 files in 3 dirs): Update translations from Launchpad (LP: #652395).
[10:18] <CIA-28> ubiquity: cjwatson * r4412 ubiquity/ (d-i/manifest debian/changelog): Automatic update of included source packages: partman-base 141ubuntu2.
[10:22] <CIA-28> ubiquity: cjwatson * r4413 ubiquity/debian/changelog: releasing version 2.4.5
[10:56] <cjwatson> ok, this is bizarre, why isn't the nb slideshow translation showing up
[10:57]  * cjwatson wonders if it's specific to nb
[10:57] <cjwatson> ah, translation not added
[11:04] <CIA-28> ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu: cjwatson * r299 ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu/ (201 files in 5 dirs):
[11:04] <CIA-28> ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu: Update translations from Launchpad, including adding Norwegian Bokmål
[11:04] <CIA-28> ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu: and Nynorsk (LP: #652395).
[11:06] <CIA-28> ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu: cjwatson * r300 ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu/debian/changelog: releasing version 28
[11:40] <bobba> So I've made some changes to the installer and it says there is an "unrecoverable error" - how might I debug the installer to find out what it thinks went wrong?
[11:42] <cjwatson> run it with 'ubiquity -d' and look in /var/log/syslog and /var/log/installer/debug
[11:42] <bobba> ahhh thanks :)
[11:43] <bobba> although when running that it doesn't tell me there is a fatal error; it just does nothing from the desktop it booted me into
[11:43] <bobba> the syslog isn't updated and the debug log file isn't created
[11:44] <bobba> :)
[11:44] <bobba> oh, sorry, syslog does say something about pulseaudio failing to load which is surprising
[11:45] <bobba> that appears to be unrelated though as it seems to be trying to load it independently of running the installer
[11:58] <bobba> I've tracked the problem down to gksudo not working! It silently doesn't run the thing it's told to...
[12:11] <bobba> Found it - just in case someone else has the same problem and asks in here, the problem is that when I copied the files in the ISO I didn't preserve the permissions, so things like su lost their setuid flag
[12:25] <cjwatson> ah yes, cp -a is important
[12:25] <cjwatson> (and run it as root)
[12:25] <bobba> I'm now doing unsquash rather than mount + cp :) Slightly safer in my mind ;)
[12:28] <cjwatson> shouldn't be much difference
[12:28] <cjwatson> if the kernel's squashfs driver misinterprets the filesystem then you have bigger problems
[12:29] <bobba> well it worked :) Fantastic cjwatson - thank you so much
[12:29] <cjwatson> you're welcome
[12:29] <bobba> ext3 was the default on installation :)
[13:18]  * Riddell wibbles about bug 634664
[13:18] <ubot2> Launchpad bug 634664 in ubiquity (Ubuntu) "Updates not installed when selected and internet is available (affects: 2) (dups: 1) (heat: 16)" [High,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/634664
[13:39] <ev> the intended behavior is that it downloads updates, but does not install them
[16:21] <cjwatson> ev: bug 651112 looks nasty, I thought we'd squashed bugs of the form "installed to external disk but it put the bootloader on the internal disk"
[16:21] <ubot2> Launchpad bug 651112 in ubiquity (Ubuntu) "External hard drive install won't boot (affects: 1) (heat: 6)" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/651112
[16:21] <ev> indeed, and I've been struggling to reproduce/fix this
[16:22] <ev> I have a patch that may go some way towards fixing it, that I need to polish to account for (hd0) style names
[16:22] <ev> I'll do that shortly
[16:33] <CIA-28> debian-installer: cjwatson * r1367 ubuntu/ (4 files in 2 dirs): Add input, NIC, and NFS modules to armel netboot images (LP: #652522).
[16:46] <davmor2> cjwatson: https://bugs.launchpad.net/wubi/+bug/651084 I think I know what the issue is here, without the network connect wubi can't download the iso it need to install.
[16:46] <ubot2> Launchpad bug 651084 in wubi "Maverick Wubi fails to install when no network is present. (affects: 1) (heat: 8)" [High,Incomplete]
[16:46] <cjwatson> but it should be using the USB stick not downloading an image.
[16:47] <cjwatson> I expect that the Windows code is failing to find the USB stick
[16:47] <davmor2> cjwatson: Ah that sounds plausible :)