more than 100 percent

Dig­ging through my phone’s pho­tos today, I found this photo of an Ubuntu install. Think­ing back to the incid­ent, The latest ver­sion of Ubuntu was out (the Jaunty Jack­alope ver­sion) and I was installing it on my laptop. The install­a­tion went on fine till I saw this screen.

More than 100%

Wait a minute! 114%!!! Lucky, my phone was nearby and I took this snap­shot for posterity.

This Brandon Sanderson-esque pro­gress bar is unac­cept­able. I have heard of people telling that they will do more than 100%. But this is frankly the first time, I’ve seen a soft­ware do it.

I was won­der­ing what would’ve been the reason for the pro­gress bar cross­ing 100. Some per­son def­in­itely would’ve for­got­ten to declare the vari­able that stored the pro­gress per­cent­age. The max­imum limit must have been set as 100, but I guess someone missed it. Cor­rect me if I am mis­taken but I thought Ubuntu code went through more eye­balls than any Win­dows OS code.