debian-installer the progress bar needs smoothing out

[Dave Morley]

Binary package hint: debian-installer

This is definitely wishlist material. The progress bar on debian-installer stops second time around at 6% there it stays until the installer hits 23%. a lot of people might switch off as nothing seems to be happening and reboot the machine.

This happen on feisty alternative and on netboot (more noticeable on netboot though). I think either a smoother scrolling bar or a brief warning that the install progress bar might freeze for the next release.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Which progress bar (for example, what text is displayed at the top)? d-i has lots of them.

[Dave Morley (davmor2)]

This is where I'm not so hot (sorry). Basically the base is installed then the bar resets for the ubuntu install at this time it gets to 6% and sits there. If you need a more definite answer I can run an install on a spare machine I have and note down any details for you. Before I do that though if you could let me know exactly what it is you need so I know what to look for. Many thanks.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

We are wondering if this is still an issue. Can you try it with the latest Ubuntu version? Thanks in advance.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I think this is essentially the same problem that we eventually fixed as bug 290234.