Public bug reported:
Whatever ubiquity is doing when it tries to find out if a chosen
hostname already exists, it's not working very well.
Ubiquity tells me that the hostname "already exists on the network"
regardless of whether I'm actually ON a network, or whether that name
already exists. It shows me big, warning red letters until it starts
verifying my user name as I type that, at which point the hostname turns
from a red warning to a green checkbox.
BUT the warning is confusing. If I didn't know better, I could easily
stand there and re-enter hostnames over and over trying to get one that
doesn't generate that warning. In fact, I gave it 4 different hostnames
(test, edubuntu, edubuntu-64-1 and edubuntu-64) all of which caused the
red "Name Exists" warning to appear, until I started typing in a
different field.
This is very confusing to the users, and I imagine is not liminted to
Edubuntu, but to ubiquity in general.
I'm attaching before and after screenshots to highlight this.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ubiquity 2.9.15
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-12.20-generic 3.2.2
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.302
Date: Tue Jan 31 15:45:08 2012
LiveMediaBuild: Edubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120131)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug iso-testing precise running-unity ubiquity-2.9.15
ubiquity-upgrade
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ubiquity tells me my computer name already exists on the network when
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