The list of server applications has blank names

Bug #438546 reported by Ara Pulido
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
tasksel (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Colin Watson
Karmic
Fix Released
Medium
Colin Watson

Bug Description

Binary package hint: debian-installer

Using Karmic Beta (20090929)

When the list of applications to install is shown, there are some items with a blank name.

See screenshot attached

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Ara Pulido (ara) wrote :
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Ara Pulido (ara) wrote : apport-collect data

Architecture: i386
CurrentDmesg:
 Error: command ['sh', '-c', 'dmesg | comm -13 /var/log/dmesg -'] failed with exit code 1: [ 16.416237] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
 comm: file 2 is not in sorted order
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Lsusb:
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: innotek GmbH VirtualBox
MemoryUsage:
 total used free shared buffers cached
 Mem: 379996 136288 243708 0 8652 80544
 -/+ buffers/cache: 47092 332904
 Swap: 409616 0 409616
Package: debian-installer (not installed)
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-11-generic root=UUID=926ae2d0-ddc2-4c3d-85c8-c874dceab279 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
dmi.bios.date: 12/01/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: innotek GmbH
dmi.bios.version: VirtualBox
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvninnotekGmbH:bvrVirtualBox:bd12/01/2006:svninnotekGmbH:pnVirtualBox:pvr1.2:
dmi.product.name: VirtualBox
dmi.product.version: 1.2
dmi.sys.vendor: innotek GmbH

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Ara Pulido (ara) wrote : BootDmesg.txt
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Ara Pulido (ara) wrote : DiskUsage.txt
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Ara Pulido (ara) wrote : Lspci.txt
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Ara Pulido (ara) wrote : ProcCpuinfo.txt
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Ara Pulido (ara) wrote : ProcInterrupts.txt
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Ara Pulido (ara) wrote : ProcModules.txt
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Ara Pulido (ara) wrote : UdevDb.txt
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Ara Pulido (ara) wrote : UdevLog.txt
tags: added: apport-collected
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Ara just confirmed that those are not hidden real tasks, just extra blank dialog boxes. So this isn't blocking beta, but is quite a confusing, and presumably simple to fix, issue worth fixing for final.

Tentatively assigning to Colin.

Changed in debian-installer (Ubuntu Karmic):
milestone: none → ubuntu-9.10
assignee: nobody → Colin Watson (cjwatson)
importance: Undecided → Medium
Colin Watson (cjwatson)
affects: debian-installer (Ubuntu Karmic) → tasksel (Ubuntu Karmic)
Changed in tasksel (Ubuntu Karmic):
milestone: ubuntu-9.10 → ubuntu-9.10-beta
status: New → In Progress
Colin Watson (cjwatson)
Changed in tasksel (Ubuntu Karmic):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package tasksel - 2.73ubuntu22

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tasksel (2.73ubuntu22) karmic; urgency=low

  * Omit tasks with no descriptions (namely ubuntu-edu-preschool,
    ubuntu-edu-primary, ubuntu-edu-secondary, and ubuntu-edu-tertiary;
    LP: #438546).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:48:40 +0100

Changed in tasksel (Ubuntu Karmic):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
tags: added: iso-testing
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