[17:51] <Ilario> Hi all!
[17:52] <Ilario> Today I tried to install Trusty daily on my laptop and on my tower pc. On laptop no problem, on tower the boot process of the live usb (made using unetbootin) hangs.
[17:55] <Ilario> You can see the tower pc specifications here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau/+bug/1266807
[17:55] <ubot2> Launchpad bug 1266807 in xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu) "[NV44] Glitches in dash with GeForce 6200 SE TurboCache" [Low,Triaged]
[17:55] <CarlFK> Ilario: did you try the (i forget the exact terms) fail safe boot modes?
[17:56] <infinity> Ilario: Try to dd the iso to the stick instead of using a fancy tool.
[17:56] <Ilario> @CarloFK, ok I'm going to try
[17:57] <Ilario> fancy tool? Unetbootin? Ok...
[17:57] <infinity> Ilario: "sudo dd if=foo.iso of=/dev/sdd BS=4M"
[17:57] <infinity> Where sdd is your USB stick...
[17:57] <infinity> Err, and bs, not BS.
[17:57] <cjwatson> bs rather than BS, I think ..
[17:57] <cjwatson> yeah :)
[17:57] <infinity> My fingers hate me today.
[17:59] <infinity> We really should do a sweep of all USB media creation tools in the archive and add a simple "if not trying to do fancy things like persistence && image is Ubuntu; then just use dd; fi"
[17:59] <infinity> (And, of course, actually fix whatever they do wrong some day too, but given that 99% of people just want a dd image anyway...)
[17:59] <Ilario> lol, btw ok, I'm going to overwrite my usb key with dd, then I'll try again
[18:00] <Ilario> (btw some days ago the daily + unetbootin worked)
[18:00] <ogra_> infinity, the one that did exactly that was ripped out last cycle (usb-imagewriter)
[18:04] <Ilario> In the meanwhile, another question: could the installer install also some ugly but useful package like "linux-firmware-nonfree" when the user checks "Install this third party software" during the installation?
[18:05] <Ilario> (and also some java plugin for firefox?)
[18:11] <Ilario> and another question: shouldn't "account-plugin-irc" be installed by default as it is required to ask for help here?
[18:21] <Ilario> Ok, the usb key made with dd hangs in the same way as did the one made with unetbootin:
[18:21] <Ilario> [5....] Switching to clocksource tsc
[18:22] <Ilario> [17...] random: nonblocking pool in initialized
[18:22] <Ilario> then nothing