Disk check message is grammatically incorrect
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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mountall (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: plymouth
I got my first message that Ubuntu was checking my disk drives today. The message said "Your disk drives are being checked for errors, this may take some time"
This is grammatically incorrect. That message contains 2 separate statements thrown together with a comma and the second one has no end punctuation. One possible solution would be to change it to "Your disk drives are being checked for errors. This may take some time." I removed the comma, replaced it with a period, capitalized the "T" in "This" and added a period at the end of the second sentence.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Apr 29 22:43:20 2010
DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release Candidate amd64 (20100419.1)
MachineType: LENOVO 7658CTO
PccardctlIdent:
Socket 0:
no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
Socket 0:
no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
SourcePackage: plymouth
TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/
dmi.bios.date: 07/01/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 7LETC1WW (2.21 )
dmi.board.name: 7658CTO
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:
dmi.product.name: 7658CTO
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
Related branches
affects: | plymouth (Ubuntu) → mountall (Ubuntu) |
Changed in mountall (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | New → Triaged |
tags: | added: patch |
Also, the phrase "This may take some time" is verbose and meaningless: everything takes time.
Better to say, "Checking disk drives for errors; please wait." (Avoid using "you" or "your" because the drives might not actually belong to that person.)
Would be great to see a % complete, too, so users know approximately how long to wait.