[13:14] <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] <cyphermox> of course netboot isn't necessarily practical in all situations
[13:26] <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
[13:27] <cyphermox> well, let me know if there's anything interesting you come up with that could be integrated in the official ISOs.
[13:28] <nebuchadnezzar> it looks like hooking into F6 is complicated, far too much for just adding a flag
[13:51] <flexiondotorg> cyphermox, Hi.
[13:52] <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
[13:53] <flexiondotorg> cyphermox, oem-config started misbehaving after the dvd-eject was partly fixed. Prior to that fix, oem-config worked for me on 26th.
[13:58] <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
[13:59] <cyphermox> (both softwares are also not related)
[14:00] <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
[14:01] <cyphermox> (or so it seemed)
[14:11] <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?
[14:14] <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
[14:15] <flexiondotorg> So, use the current daily?
[14:17] <cyphermox> yes
[14:18] <cyphermox> ugh, if this isn't going to start going better I'll add a 30 second timeout to press enter otherwise reboot automatically :)
[17:25] <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.
[17:31] <cyphermox> sure
[17:32] <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
[17:53] <flexiondotorg> cyphermox, Thanks.
[19:02] <cyphermox> *sigh* if only more systems still shipped with serial ports