should tell that CD will be ejected automatically

Bug #70088 reported by Alexander van Loon
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Evan

Bug Description

When the installation is finished, the installer ask the user to remove the CD before restarting. I believe this is incorrect, as that is not what happens. After clicking restart, the CD will eject automatically. So please tell the user that this will happen automatically after the user clicks restart. Currently it's a bit confusing, when I received the dialog I tried ejecting the CD before clicking restart, and the CD would not eject.

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Simon Law (sfllaw)
Changed in ubiquity:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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leexgx (leexgx) wrote :

the CD auto ejects once it has shut down ejecting the CD before the system has shut down should not work as it should be Locked (is locked) as ubuntu Live CD is still useing it

the msg is an little miss leading still tho

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Evan (ev) wrote :

I don't agree. The current text says to remove the CD when restarting, not before:

"Installation is complete. You need to restart the computer in order to use the new installation. You can continue to use this live CD, although any changes you make or documents you save will not be preserved.

Be sure to remove the CD when restarting the computer, otherwise it will start back up using this live CD rather than the newly-installed system."

But if this message is really confusing users, I am tempted to remove the last line entirely, as usplash tells the user to remove the CD exactly when they should. Colin, what do you think?

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

I'm not convinced that the auto-eject will always work (it hasn't in the past due to bugs; and independently I suspect there are drives that don't support the software eject function).

That said, you're right that casper's init script prompts via usplash to remove the CD, and the distinction between "right now, while this message is being displayed" and "at some later point during shutdown" is rather unclear and not very well-worded, so I agree it's probably OK to remove the text from ubiquity too.

Evan (ev)
Changed in ubiquity:
assignee: nobody → evand
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Evan (ev) wrote :

ubiquity (1.7.0) hardy; urgency=low

  [ Mario Limonciello ]
  * Divert gtk frontend .desktop file and logo to a better location
    so that it isn't improperly sourced by Xfce.
  * Properly execute mythbuntu frontend from .desktop file.
  * Set default mythtv theme on all installs to be mythtv-theme-mythbuntu.
  * Fix a few typos preventing xmltv from being installed.
  * Launch mythtv-setup.real in a terminal window allowing xmltv
    to be used during it.
  * Fix typo preventing mysql service from activating.
  * Fail more gracefully if we can't do aticonfig.
  * Add apt-cdrom to target system for mythbuntu to work around
    apt-setup not working in ubiquity-mythbuntu. (LP: #154732)

  [ Michael Haas ]
  * Force LC_CTYPE as a temporary workaround for locale issues
    when writing out VNC. (LP: #149935, #150029)

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Fix ubiquity-frontend-* and ubiquity-artwork-* virtual package name
    generation to handle ~ in versions.
  * Add an intro message noting that we're alpha again.
  * Adjust for localechooser 1.40:
    - Cope with localechooser asking countrychooser/country-name rather than
      countrychooser/shortlist.
  * Remove the pregenerated snakeoil certificate and reconfigure ssl-cert so
    that each system gets a unique snakeoil certificate.

  [ Evan Dandrea ]
  * Removed the somewhat confusing reminder to remove the CD from the reboot
    dialog. Casper handles telling the user this at the right moment via
    a final usplash message. (LP: #70088)
  * Automatic update of included source packages: base-installer
    1.85ubuntu2, choose-mirror 2.19ubuntu1, clock-setup 0.92ubuntu1,
    console-setup 1.19ubuntu1, debian-installer-utils 1.49ubuntu1, grub-
    installer 1.27ubuntu1, hw-detect 1.58ubuntu1, kboot-installer
    0.0.1ubuntu6, localechooser 1.42ubuntu1, partconf 1.24, partman-auto
    70ubuntu1, partman-base 111ubuntu1, partman-basicfilesystems
    56ubuntu1, partman-ext3 48, partman-jfs 23, partman-partitioning
    52ubuntu1, partman-reiserfs 37, partman-target 52ubuntu1, partman-
    xfs 35, silo-installer 1.12ubuntu1, tzsetup 1:0.19, user-setup
    1.16ubuntu1.

 -- Evan Dandrea <email address hidden> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:56:18 -0500

Changed in ubiquity:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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