Visibility of progress during "update-initramfs" not given

Bug #1517305 reported by Flames_in_Paradise
10
This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Hello

shortlog:

If a new user installs ubuntu and as post-installation task runs the available updates he certainly gets a new Kernel too – this means that the initRAMFS will be updated.

Depending on the Hardware equipment, this can be a rather timely + CPU consuming process.

The chance to believe the PC stalls is at high risk w/o visual feedback.

If the electricty or internet-connection fails to work - and the process was interupted, the system will call for a

$ E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem

If the user does so, he gets no visul feedback in terms of a progressbar - this could be possible in the terminal!

Remember the Knoppix CD, where the boot-process in itself was visible?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPsFmMFwScU @ 5min11sec the progress bar in question is visible. (Source: Semper-Video - Knoppix Rettungs-CD, 2008/07)

It can build trust to see that a process is evolving - even the Redmond-guys respect this - still with W10 - giving a visual feedback to the user - not just a blinking cursor.

Thinking this would not be to timely to implement.

Thanks for making Ubuntu better every day!

tags: added: wishlist xenial
description: updated
summary: - Visibility of update progress during "update-initramfs" not given
+ Visibility of progress during "update-initramfs" not given
description: updated
description: updated
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in initramfs-tools-ubuntu-core (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
tags: added: accessibility
Revision history for this message
Flames_in_Paradise (ellisistfroh-deactivatedaccount) wrote :
Changed in initramfs-tools-ubuntu-core (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
Oliver Grawert (ogra)
affects: initramfs-tools-ubuntu-core (Ubuntu) → initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
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