PS3: KDM login not working after install from Kubuntu 7.10 Alternate CD

Bug #210287 reported by dlotton
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kdebase (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
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Bug Description

After installing from Kubuntu Gutsy(7.10) Alternate install CD for PS3 I was unable to get the KDM login screen. The PS3 would always boot to a command prompt.

I traced this issue to a double entry in the "/etc/default/locale" file which was causing the "/etc/init.d/kdm" script to fail when checking locale. The file contained two identical lines...

LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

Running the "/etc/init.d/kdm" script yielded the following...

user1@ps3:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/kdm start
sed: -e expression #1, char 32: unterminated `s' command

Deleting the extra line in "/etc/default/locale" resolved the problem and allowed the "/etc/init.d/kdm" script to run from the command line and on boot.

Perhaps this was triggered by bug# 154083. I got to a point in the install where the installer wasn't able to find the "linux-cell" kernel image. It produced a menu where I had to select a kernel image. I selected "linux-image-2.6.22-14-cell" and the install continued. If I remember correctly, it went through some of the install steps that had already been performed (keyboard, timezone setup, etc.). Perhaps this caused the second entry in "/etc/default/locale".

Tags: gutsy kdm login ps3
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote : Package assigned

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage. I have classified this bug as a bug in kdm.

For future reference you might be interested to know that a lot of applications have bug reporting functionality built in to them. This can be accessed via the Report a Problem option in the Help menu for the application with which you are having an issue. You can learn more about this feature at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

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Harald Sitter (apachelogger) wrote :

Most likely, this issue is definitely not caused by a Kubuntu specific component -> closing as invalid.

Thank you for the report anyway, though :)

Changed in kdebase:
status: New → Invalid
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