Ubuntu
livecd-rootfs package

Ubuntu Studio images aren't being built with a live user

Bug #2046386 reported by Erich Eickmeyer
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
casper (Ubuntu)
Invalid
High
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debian-cd (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
High
Unassigned
livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu)
Invalid
High
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Bug Description

This is a tracking bug to figure out the issue with Ubuntu Studio noble images not being built with a live user.

This appeared after we started the transition to using ubuntustudio-system-installer (a fork of ubuntu-flavor-installer, itself a layer on top of ubuntu-desktop-installer). With Steve Langasek's guidance, we merged the code to livecd-rootfs to get .iso images building with ubuntustudio-system-installer, but the system boots to a blank black screen with a mouse cursor themed with the Breeze cursor theme from KDE Plasma Desktop, meaning something is attempting to be loaded here.

However, switching to a VM results in a login prompt, but attempts to login as "ubuntu-studio" as in the past proved in vain. Upon investigating the squashfs image, no user directories populate the /home directory, suggesting casper never creates the ubuntu-studio user.

This is fixed by changing the KERNEL_PARAMS line to the following:

> KERNEL_PARAMS="${KERNEL_PARAMS:+$KERNEL_PARAMS }layerfs-path=standard.live.squashfs --- quiet splash"

See original description
Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)
Changed in casper (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)
tags: added: rls-nn-incoming
Revision history for this message
Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer) wrote :

Progress has been made on this in that the issue may be in debian-cd as opposed to either casper or livecd-rootfs, so new MP is open.

Changed in debian-cd (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
Revision history for this message
Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer) wrote :

Confirmed this is resolved by the MP for debian-cd by booting and changing the kernel boot params on the live-iso to match the one in the MP.

Changed in livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
Changed in casper (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
affects: debian-cd (Ubuntu) → debian-cd
description: updated
Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)
affects: debian-cd → debian-cd (Ubuntu)
Changed in debian-cd (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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