Public bug reported: Ubuntu release: Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS plymouth version: 0.8.2-2ubuntu2.2
On bootup, I received the Hungarian equivalent of the following error / prompt text: "Errors were found while checking the disk drive for / Press F to attempt to fix the errors, I to ignore, S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery" Now the big problem was that the second line of the above text is significantly longer in the Hungarian translation, so "Press F to" and "recovery" were clipped off on the left and right side of the screen. Which left me really clueless about which button I should press to attempt fixing the error. In the end I successfully googled up the above English equivalent of the message to get the answer, but this is certainly not an example of good usability... So either the loading screen should be able to render similar messages with automatic line breaks or (less elegant solution) someone should put linebreaks manually into all message texts. (I mean: into the original English messages. because, I guess, translators won't start to put any linebreaks when their translation doubles the character count of a single line.) ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu2.2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-38.83-generic-pae 2.6.32.52+drm33.21 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-38-generic-pae i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: i386 CheckboxSubmission: cd3a081d71b0fa03e8879dff272e423d CheckboxSystem: edda5d4f616ca792bf437989cb597002 Date: Sat Mar 3 11:54:35 2012 DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429) MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. P41T-D3 ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-38-generic-pae root=UUID=33a8cb8e-2586-4bf1-a90f-7edaf6aa5b01 ro quiet splash ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=hu_HU:en LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcFB: 0 VGA16 VGA SourcePackage: plymouth TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth dmi.bios.date: 05/31/2010 dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc. dmi.bios.version: F1 dmi.board.name: P41T-D3 dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. dmi.board.version: x.x dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF1:bd05/31/2010:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnP41T-D3:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnP41T-D3:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr: dmi.product.name: P41T-D3 dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. ** Affects: plymouth (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 lucid usability -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/945517 Title: part of fsck error message is rendered offscreen during startup To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/945517/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs