file integrity check provides no feedback to the user
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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casper (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
As of 1.460, it seems the file integrity check is now running silently, which is great. It wasn't working correctly (bug 1917590) but that's now resolved. Unfortunately, a failed result provides no feedback at any time to the user.
Additionally, the installer can be run despite the bad media. That's probably a separate bug for the installer.
Either way, the software shouldn't let a user continue to waste their time on something that's broken.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04
Package: casper 1.460
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 5.10.0-14-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu60
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckM
CasperMD5CheckR
CasperVersion: 1.460
CurrentDesktop: LXQt
Date: Thu Mar 11 21:10:01 2021
LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 21.04 "Hirsute Hippo" - Alpha amd64 (20210311)
SourcePackage: casper
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
mtime.conffile.
installers should parse and present the status information as generated in /run.
apport & subiquity use it. And ubiquity will store it in /var/log/installer with the next ubiquity upload.
even when it did show error, it didn't block boot and just delayed it a bit. So in practice everyone was still running off bad media.