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 an apostrophe, which causes the Debian installer to > > not create my user account. Long time ago when I tried to seek help > > via IRC was told I must have done something wrong. Two days ago I > > confirmed through multiple installs that the apostrophe is the > > culprit. > > > > This is the only attempt I will make at filing a bug report. Anyone > > more familiar with filing a bug report, it would be greatly > > appreciated if you would make sure it gets filed properly so it may > > be resolved. https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting is an ugly wall > > of text which immediately discouraged me from wanting to file a bug > > report anymore. > > You can pretty much stop right after the first sentence and just use > reportbug.
Strongly recommended. > The one gotcha is that reportbug needs either a working mail server > configuration or an SMTP host. In your case you could use GMail: > https://wiki.debian.org/reportbug#Using_GMail.27s_SMTP_Server 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 computer to send mail to the Internet? [y|N|q|?]? n Please enter the name of your SMTP host. Usually it's called something like "mail.example.org" or "smtp.example.org". If you need to use a different port than default, use the <host>:<port> alternative format. Just press ENTER if you don't have one or don't know, and so a Debian SMTP host will be used. ~/.reportbugrc will have 'smtp reportbug.debian.org' in the file if ENTER is pressed. Not exactly a gotcha.
