[Hardy] OEM install from Desktop CD doesn't work

Bug #188240 reported by Stéphane Graber
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Colin Watson

Bug Description

Binary package hint: oem-config

I tried doing an OEM install with Ubuntu desktop CD 20080201 (Alpha4 candidate) :
 - Booted selecting the OEM option
 - Started an install as manual partitioning
 - Entered a password for the temporary-user
 - Install went well and I rebooted the computer
 - At boot time the system auto-logon with the temporary-user (it's supposed to have a password !!!)
 - No oem-config icon is present on the desktop
 - After checking : "dpkg -l | grep oem" returns nothing

Tags: iso-testing

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Please attach /var/log/installer/syslog so that I can see what went wrong.

Changed in oem-config:
assignee: nobody → kamion
status: New → Incomplete
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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Autologin with the temporary user is deliberate, by the way. The intended workflow is that the computer manufacturer installs the system and then uses the temporary user to make any necessary customisations, before running oem-config-prepare, shutting down, and duplicating the disk. The temporary user should not be visible outside their factory. If there's any security problem with autologin here, then they're using it wrongly ...

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Stéphane Graber (stgraber) wrote :
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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Reproduced and isolated. apt-setup's finish-install script is commenting out the 'deb cdrom' line in sources.list, which is great, except we need it to do that *after* we've finished installing packages from the CD. I'll fix this tomorrow.

Changed in oem-config:
importance: Undecided → High
milestone: none → hardy-alpha-5
status: Incomplete → Triaged
Colin Watson (cjwatson)
Changed in ubiquity:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 1.7.7

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ubiquity (1.7.7) hardy; urgency=low

  [ Mario Limonciello ]
  * Add ubiquity-frontend-mythbuntu.links to source exterior glade files.
  * Add temporary workaround to allow Mythbuntu installs on low res
    displays.
  * Fix case when no themes are removed.

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Prevent apt-install from installing packages directly unless
    install_extras has been run (previously, it would do so once apt was
    configured, which produced some confusing error messages).
  * Call apt-setup finish-install script during cleanup, not while
    configuring apt; removing cdrom entries from sources.list at this point
    broke OEM installs and probably other things (LP: #188240).
  * Fetch http_proxy and no_proxy from gconf (if possible) immediately
    before configuring apt.
  * Update installed file list for apt-setup 1:0.31ubuntu3.
  * GTK frontend:
    - Add proxy configuration to the advanced dialog (LP: #131421).
  * Import DebconfError correctly in summary component (thanks, Jesus L.
    Alvaro; LP: #177442).
  * Build-depend on dctrl-tools rather than grep-dctrl.

  [ Evan Dandrea ]
  * Validate the boot device string that the user provides on the
    advanced page.
  * Change the boot device Entry to a ComboBox that displays suitable targets.
  * Updated the location of gnome-settings-daemon in ubiquity-dm.
  * Fix the installer window appearing briefly when starting automatic mode.
  * Explicitly call GDM/KDM at the end of ubiquity-dm as we now remove the rc
    files in casper for only-ubiquity and automatic-ubiquity.
  * Always show the advanced partitioner buttons, greying them out
    conditionally instead of hiding them.
  * Add the progress bar for automatic mode that was already present in
    gtk_ui to kde_ui.
  * Replace the resize slider with a custom widget in gtk_ui.
  * Automatic update of included source packages: apt-setup
    1:0.31ubuntu5, grub-installer 1.27ubuntu5, hw-detect 1.58ubuntu2,
    partman-partitioning 54ubuntu2.

  [ Agostino Russo ]
  * Added debug mode boot parameter

 -- Evan Dandrea <email address hidden> Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:03:15 -0500

Changed in ubiquity:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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