[Bug 1558271] Re: network autoconfiguration Option 4 shows comma only

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

@Frank
The bug report is about netcfg question, after failed dhcp network configuration.
The screenshot you provide is from s390-netdevice, which is irrelevant for this bug report.

@ruddk
this is a consmetic issue, medium priority issue, which is not scheduled to be fixed in any milestone at the moment.
and we have disabled dhcp by default in xenial, after this bug was filed thus most people do not see this screen any more (e.g. do you want to configure dhcp -> no -> takes the user direct to static network configuration) and the error screen with empty wifi option is not shown.

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Title:
  network autoconfiguration Option 4 shows comma only

Status in Ubuntu on IBM z Systems:
  New
Status in debian-installer package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  == Comment: #0 - Annegret Koenig - 2016-03-16 08:49:42 ==
  --->  Option 4  shows a comma only : 

  From here you can choose to retry DHCP network autoconfiguration (which may    
  succeed if your DHCP server takes a long time to respond) or to configure the  
  network manually. Some DHCP servers require a DHCP hostname to be sent by the  
  client, so you can also choose to retry DHCP network autoconfiguration with a  
  hostname that you provide.                                                     
  Network configuration method:                                                  
    1: Retry network autoconfiguration,                                          
    2: Retry network autoconfiguration with a DHCP hostname,                     
    3: Configure network manually [*],                                           
    4: ,                                                                         
    5: Do not configure the network at this time,                                
  Prompt: '?' for help, default=3>   

  --->  If you choose option 4,  the next panel shows  :

  Network configuration method:                              
    1: Retry network autoconfiguration,                      
    2: Retry network autoconfiguration with a DHCP hostname, 
    3: Configure network manually,                           
    4:  [*],                                                 
    5: Do not configure the network at this time,            
  Prompt: '?' for help, default=4>

  == Comment: #1 - Hendrik Brueckner - 2016-03-16 09:15:35 ==

  Option 4 is for wireless configuration which does not exist on s390.
  The problem here is that the list of choices is implemented in the
  templates file itself and becomes replaced.  The wireless choice is
  replaced with an empty string.

  A possible solution would be to create the complete choices string
  within the netcfg module.  However, this might have an impact on
  translation then.

  I will leave the final decision up to Canonical how to solve this.

  Thanks.

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