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live-config script is broken in ubuntu

Bug #913874 reported by Wagner Volanin
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Bug Description

An image created with live-build uses the scripts provided by live-config to configure the image during boot.
But the live-config main script (config.sh) is broken in ubuntu.

Ways to reproduce:
- Boot the newly build image with the noautologin or noxautologin kernel parameters.

What should happen:
- The live-config main script (config.sh) should execute the configuration scripts.

What happens:
- There is an error message about '???-sysvinit' not found and config.sh aborts.

Why it happens:
- The live config package in ubuntu removes the '007-gdm3' and '016-sysvinit' files, necessary for config.sh to run.

Proposed solution:
- It's a small problem that lies in the config.sh script. The noautologin and noxautologin options asks config.sh to NOT execute some scripts (007-gdm3 and 016-sysvinit in this case). But if these scripts are not available, config.sh aborts.

The simple attached patch fixes this config.sh behaviour and makes its script inclusion/exclusion routines much more robust. Please consider it for inclusion. Thank you.

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Wagner Volanin (volanin) wrote :

Using live-config-3.0~a22 from Ubuntu Oneiric.
Bug is present in all architectures.

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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote :

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tags: added: patch
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Leo Iannacone (l3on) wrote :

Notified to developer... we will wait for an ack.

Changed in live-config (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Leo Iannacone (l3on)
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Wagner Volanin (volanin) wrote :

This bug is still present in the current version of Ubuntu Precise. It always happens when you create an usb-hdd image using live-build, and sets the initramfs config option to live-boot. When booting the image, error messages about the missing scripts appear on the screen. I am attaching a cleaner patch that fix this.

What is expected to happen:
The image should ignore the missing scripts and boot normally.

What happened instead:
The missing scripts are hardcoded in the config script, and as such, the boot fails.

Using Ubuntu Precise 12.04 amd64.
Live-build 3.0~a24-1ubuntu32.

Leo Iannacone (l3on)
Changed in live-config (Ubuntu):
assignee: Leo Iannacone (l3on) → nobody
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simon (smirnoffice3020) wrote :

live-config package is broken in latest kubuntu 14.04!!!

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simon (smirnoffice3020) wrote :

live-config package is broken in latest kubuntu 14.04!!!
please fix it quickly i really need that package

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