| cyphermox | nebuchadnezzar: if you're preseeding, have you considered booting from the network? it may be easier to get systems to have all the exact options you want them to have (and further reduces user interaction a bit, or you can also set up custom settings there a bit more easily) | 13:14 |
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| cyphermox | of course netboot isn't necessarily practical in all situations | 13:14 |
| nebuchadnezzar | cyphermox: unfortunately, it's not practical for our users, they boot the ISO, either from CDROM or USB key, chosse a boot entry, then everything is automated | 13:26 |
| cyphermox | ok | 13:26 |
| nebuchadnezzar | that was great until now, some of them want to choose something in the automated process, without doing a full manual installation | 13:26 |
| cyphermox | well, let me know if there's anything interesting you come up with that could be integrated in the official ISOs. | 13:27 |
| nebuchadnezzar | it looks like hooking into F6 is complicated, far too much for just adding a flag | 13:28 |
| flexiondotorg | cyphermox, Hi. | 13:51 |
| flexiondotorg | cyphermox, Saw you were looking at the oem-config issue. | 13:52 |
| flexiondotorg | cyphermox, See my comment - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1436937/comments/4 | 13:52 |
| flexiondotorg | cyphermox, oem-config started misbehaving after the dvd-eject was partly fixed. Prior to that fix, oem-config worked for me on 26th. | 13:53 |
| cyphermox | well, I'm using the same image to debug both | 13:58 |
| cyphermox | but I'm not using the MATE image, I'm using the straight ubuntu one | 13:58 |
| cyphermox | (both softwares are also not related) | 13:59 |
| cyphermox | in other words, I was using the exact same image as jibel | 14:00 |
| cyphermox | it wasn't working *great*, but the oem user did get removed | 14:00 |
| cyphermox | (or so it seemed) | 14:01 |
| flexiondotorg | cyphermox, There is an OEM who will soon be shipping Ubuntu MATE pre-installed. So I am prepared to help fix this. | 14:11 |
| flexiondotorg | cyphermox, What can I do to assist? | 14:11 |
| cyphermox | well, you can re-run the procedure and watch whether it shows anything on the VTs as oem-config-prepare was run, before rebooting; also after rebooting when it normally does the removals and asks for the new user details before rebooting again | 14:14 |
| flexiondotorg | So, use the current daily? | 14:15 |
| cyphermox | yes | 14:17 |
| cyphermox | ugh, if this isn't going to start going better I'll add a 30 second timeout to press enter otherwise reboot automatically :) | 14:18 |
| flexiondotorg | cyphermox, Please try OEM config with Ubuntu MATE. You'll see the way it fails is different to Ubuntu. But this was working perfectly a couple of days ago. | 17:25 |
| cyphermox | ok | 17:25 |
| flexiondotorg | cyphermox, I'm going to do what I can to test this over the weekend and gather some data. But please do test Ubuntu MATE. "Bad stuff" happens. | 17:25 |
| cyphermox | sure | 17:31 |
| cyphermox | I'll be getting to it shortly, I either will get the fix for the Enter key shortly or give up for now and look at MATE before I go insane | 17:32 |
| flexiondotorg | cyphermox, Thanks. | 17:53 |
| cyphermox | *sigh* if only more systems still shipped with serial ports | 19:02 |
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