Bug#451208: installation-report: Successful install
Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> wrote:
> This does not of course mean you weren't right to report. Knowing the
> installations are correct is important for the d-i team.
Of course I was right to report ;-). It was explicitly requested that I
do so in the release notes (or possibly on the netinst download screen).
On the other hand, maybe I did uncover a bug in the installer. Keep
reading...
Jim Paris <jim@jtan.com> wrote:
> Bill Wohler wrote:
> > Package: installation-reports
> ..
> > Please find hardware-summary attached. Note that free: stanza is
> > incorrect--I actually have 2 GB of memory.
>
> It might, but Linux is definitely only seeing a bit less than 1 GB of
> that. Does "free" report the full 2 GB on other OSes (Ubuntu Live CD,
> Windows?), and/or do you see the full 2 GB with "memtest86+"?
Hi Jim, I just noticed that 1 GB was in the report. My system--once
installed--has always reported 2 GB. The question is: why did only 1 GB
appear in the report?
> > Interestingly, the top of Gnucash reports printed to PDF were truncated
> > until I installed a printer in CUPS, and then the problem disappeared.
> > Is a CUPS installation default suboptimal?
>
> Maybe it was a paper size issue, and installing a printer changed your
> default papersize? You can change the current setting with
> "dpkg-reconfigure libpaper1". I noticed in your system information:
>
> > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
>
> If LC_ALL was set to C during installation, I think libpaper1 would
> have defaulted to A4 (because "locale width" and "locale height"
> return A4 size in that case)
That sounds like a reasonable explanation. I'll pass that on to some
other folks on debian-user that had the same issue.
Hmmm, I recall entering my language and locale at the beginning of the
installation. Perhaps the installer should have set LC_ALL to
en_US.UTF-8, in which case libpaper1 would have defaulted to letter
instead of A4. Maybe this *is* a bug in the installer?
On the other hand, I wouldn't mind if the US switched to A4 :-). And the
metric system. I can dream.
Thanks for the feedback!
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Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD
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