I've recently discovered hundreds of bug reports regarding people trying to install drivers (bcmwl, fglrx, nvidia) on their Live USB version of Ubuntu and it failing[1]. Part of the large volume is due to the fact that the bug reports are automatically reported by apport as package installation failures. When looking at these bug reports I had a couple of questions.
Is installing drivers on a Live USB version of Ubuntu something that is supported? It seems to me that there are a lot of people who think it should be and I believe it would a useful way for people to test the development release of Ubuntu and the latest drivers. If it isn't though we should stop the automatic reporting of this classification of bug reports[2]. There are also some bug reports[3] that have empty DpkgTerminalLog.txt[4] attachments. How did this happen and can it be fixed? Can these be marked as duplicates of bug 557023? (Provided they are on live media and about installing drivers of course.) [1] http://launchpad.net/bugs/557023 [2] I've written bug patterns for a couple of packages for this [3] http://launchpad.net/bugs/696656 [4] http://launchpadlibrarian.net/61549804/DpkgTerminalLog.txt Thanks, -- Brian Murray Ubuntu Bug Master
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