Re: Reporting Bug

2015-10-23 Thread Piyavkin
On 23.10.2015 14:00, Brian wrote: On Fri 23 Oct 2015 at 00:03:02 +0300, Piyavkin wrote: On 22.10.2015 17:03, Brian wrote: On Thu 22 Oct 2015 at 16:15:27 +0300, Piyavkin wrote: I agree with the topic starter: the Debian's bug reporting process is horrible and not userfriendly from user's view

Re: Reporting Bug

2015-10-23 Thread Brian
On Fri 23 Oct 2015 at 00:03:02 +0300, Piyavkin wrote: > On 22.10.2015 17:03, Brian wrote: > >On Thu 22 Oct 2015 at 16:15:27 +0300, Piyavkin wrote: > > > >>I agree with the topic starter: the Debian's bug reporting process is > >>horrible and not userfriendly from user's viewpoint. If an organizati

Re: Reporting Bug

2015-10-22 Thread Piyavkin
On 22.10.2015 17:03, Brian wrote: On Thu 22 Oct 2015 at 16:15:27 +0300, Piyavkin wrote: On 22.10.2015 10:18, Ondřej Grover wrote: Hello Adrian, could you please be more specific about a few points? - what installer ISO did you use - did you use the text or graphical installer - what was the e

Re: Reporting Bug

2015-10-22 Thread Adrian O'Dell
I'm well versed in bash. It just never occurred to me to escape the apostrophe in the real name field since it is supposed to be a string variable. Mint treats my input correctly, creating my user account as it should. Debian does not. I'll try escaping the apostrophe one of these days, but

Re: Reporting Bug

2015-10-22 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2015-10-22 at 18:53 +0100, Brian wrote: > There is no need to use GMail, a mailserver on the machine or an SMTP > host. The novice operating mode of 'reportbug' has in its prompts: > >Do you have a "mail transport agent" (MTA) like Exim, >Postfix or SSMTP configured on this compute

Re: Reporting Bug

2015-10-22 Thread Brian
On Thu 22 Oct 2015 at 16:19:49 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Thu, 2015-10-22 at 01:15 -0500, Adrian O'Dell wrote: > > There appears to be a bug which has Plagued me for years. Oddly I > > don't have the bug in Linux Mint. Did they edit this part of the > > installer? > > > > My name contains

Re: Reporting Bug

2015-10-22 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2015-10-22 at 01:15 -0500, Adrian O'Dell wrote: > There appears to be a bug which has Plagued me for years. Oddly I > don't > have the bug in Linux Mint. Did they edit this part of the installer? > > My name contains an apostrophe, which causes the Debian installer to > not > create my u

Re: Reporting Bug

2015-10-22 Thread Brian
On Thu 22 Oct 2015 at 16:15:27 +0300, Piyavkin wrote: > On 22.10.2015 10:18, Ondřej Grover wrote: > >Hello Adrian, > > > >could you please be more specific about a few points? > >- what installer ISO did you use > >- did you use the text or graphical installer > >- what was the error message or wh

Re: Reporting Bug

2015-10-22 Thread Piyavkin
On 22.10.2015 10:18, Ondřej Grover wrote: Hello Adrian, could you please be more specific about a few points? - what installer ISO did you use - did you use the text or graphical installer - what was the error message or what failed or happened exactly that stopped the installation I wasn't a

Re: Reporting Bug

2015-10-22 Thread Brian
On Thu 22 Oct 2015 at 09:18:24 +0200, Ondřej Grover wrote: > On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Adrian O'Dell > wrote: > > > There appears to be a bug which has Plagued me for years. Oddly I don't > > have the bug in Linux Mint. Did they edit this part of the installer? > > > > My name contains an

Re: Reporting Bug

2015-10-22 Thread Ondřej Grover
Hello Adrian, could you please be more specific about a few points? - what installer ISO did you use - did you use the text or graphical installer - what was the error message or what failed or happened exactly that stopped the installation I wasn't able to reproduce your problem in VirtualBox us

Re: Reporting Bug

2015-10-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
Normally I would put a backslash character in front of that apostrophe since it's a special character to bash at least and I suspect several other shell envioonments. Perhaps try O\'Dell by way of an example. I suspect mint hasn't been modified at all and that you haven't interacted so far wi