On Sat, Jan 09, 2021 at 04:22:43PM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 09, 2021 at 04:02:00PM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote:
>> >Hmm, I wonder why the text is truncated at all...
>> >
>> >The whole text from the template file looks like this:
>> >"The installer is now overwriting ${DEVICE} with random data to prevent
>> >meta-information leaks from the encrypted volume. This step may be skipped
>> >by cancelling this action, albeit at the expense of a slight reduction of
>> >the
>> >quality of the encryption."
>> >
>> >So I guess the suggested shortage does not fix the whole problem, and I
>> >would not consider changing the template in this situation.
>>
>> Nod. I've just checked in the text installer and the text there is
>> displayed in full. This is something specific to the graphical
>> installer. I'm genuinely not sure what's going on here. :-/
>
>How did you reproduce that issue?
I just started the installer in a VM locally and set up a crypted
LVM. Nothing special. In text mode, you get the whole text. In
graphical mode, it's not wrapped at all so the text flows off the
screen.
>Is this specific to partitioning NVMe devices (as can be understood from the
>OP)?
No, not at all. Matthew was just using the default (graphical)
installer on his machine. We spoke in IRC and I asked him to file the
bug here. I've just worked out that this is a more generic problem
than we realised.
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