Comment 4 for bug 925240

On Tue, February 7, 2012 1:58 pm, Brian Murray wrote:
> At what point in time did you switch to a console and execute tail? I
> tried recreating this using tail -F syslog right after starting the
> installer and was able to complete an install successfully, however it
> did seem slower.

I am not sure as I was switching back and forth. I had installed ok once
before, but felt that maybe it was the time I happened to switch.
>
> Incidentally, tail wouldn't show you anything on the console due to a
> different bug regarding inotify and overlayfs. So not seeing anything
> in the console is not indicative of the install not working.

I also had trouble using tail and so used less and then hit F. This did
work. The reason I thought it was the switching to console was that I saw
a message about not being able to access the "fb" which I thought might be
a frame buffer. However, I have since then never used the console again
while installing, but rather an xterm. Yet I have still had ubiquity
freeze on me. ubiquity was trying to download something at the time and
the logs showed a wireless reconnect as the last thing that happened. It
is possible this was what really happened the first time too.

I have been testing the 12.04 iso about once a day and having tow freezes
is not that bad. it is certainly not consistent and repeatable.

If there are specific ways I can test this for you let me know.

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Len Ovens
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