On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Colin Watson<cjwat...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:27:02AM -0400, Nathan Dorfman wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Colin Watson<cjwat...@ubuntu.com> wrote: >> > (It's surprising that you apparently didn't see a dialog informing you >> > that the installer had crashed. It must have gone down pretty hard.) >> >> Yup. I had no idea that it crashed until you just told me :) > > Interesting. That's a rather curious bug in itself.
Yeah. The crash itself turned out to be a dupe -- 395425. Following your suggestion in the main bug, I updated ubiquity in the live desktop env., and confirmed that it is fixed. I was also taken aback, though, by how non-obvious it was that the installler crashed. Am I the only one for whom the gnome crash notification occurs long after the crash -- at least a minute, maybe two, into the live desktop session? This is on relatively modern hardware. If not, shouldn't the installer at least be wrapped in some script? One that can at least say "We're sorry, but something went wrong." After all, booting the (perhaps partially-) installed system will produce undefined results at this point. Of course, in my case everything worked pretty much flawlessly for weeks, as evidenced by the progression in this thread. So, perhaps it's best not to worry the user unnecessarily. ;-) -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
