I have also noticed this behaviour and it's rather perplexing. First of all (as others have noted) there isn't any feedback at all that this operation might take a long time (I personally expected "Creating user" to be a rather quick operation). Second: why *does* it take so long? Even with a big swap partition it should not take 15 minutes to zero it out. Might providing a bigger block-size to the dd command increase the speed? As this is time the user usually spends waiting before being able to use his new and shiny Ubuntu installation it is a really bad first impression.
-- [karmic alpha6] Installing System with encrypted $HOME: Installer hangs at 83% for ~15 minutes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/432422 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
