Lubuntu and Ubuntu Studio Hirsute incorrectly launch Ubiquity installer

[Leó Kolbeinsson]

Testing Lubuntu Hirsute daily 20210414 -

1. boot into desktop
2. select "Install Lubuntu 21.04 "
3. The ubiquity install starts with the message installing Kubuntu !!

Further to the original description - running checks on the Lubuntu menus discovered several KDE apps including KDE System settings,KDE connect settings,Kwallet and others.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04
Package: calamares 3.2.37-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-14.15-generic 5.11.12
Uname: Linux 5.11.0-14-generic x86_64
.etc.calamares.modules.finished.conf:
 ---
 restartNowMode: user-checked
 restartNowCommand: "systemctl -i reboot"
.etc.calamares.modules.shellprocess_logs.conf:
 ---
 dontChroot: true
 timeout: 30
 script:
     - calamares-logs-helper @@ROOT@@
.etc.calamares.modules.unpackfs.conf:
 ---
 unpack:
     - source: "/cdrom/casper/filesystem.squashfs"
         sourcefs: "squashfs"
         destination: ""
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu62
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CasperVersion: 1.461
CurrentDesktop: LXQt
Date: Wed Apr 14 17:46:51 2021
LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 21.04 "Hirsute Hippo" - Beta amd64 (20210414)
RelatedPackageVersions:
 calamares-settings-ubuntu-common 1:21.04.2
 calamares-settings-lubuntu 1:21.04.2
 xfsprogs 5.10.0-2ubuntu3
 btrfs-progs 5.10.1-1build1
SourcePackage: calamares
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1923881

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The ubiquity packages did not appear on the daily image from 20210413.

[Leó Kolbeinsson (leok)]

@brian-murray

re comment # 3 - that is correct - first showed up on daily 20210414

[Leó Kolbeinsson (leok)]

This bug also affects Ubuntu Studio

Ran test Daily ISO 20210414 and after booting instead of entering the desktop the Ubiquity installer started with the Kubuntu 21.04 installation screen.The choices were "Try Kubuntu Studio" and "Install Kubuntu Studio" - I aborted the install with no further test.

Further: the ubiquity packages were not on the manifest for 20210413.

[ԜаӀtеr Ⅼарсһуnѕkі (wxl)]

Looks like the real culprit here is having casper depend upon ubiquity. I suspect before the removal of udeb packages (including localechooser-data which was the alternative to the depend otherwise satisfied by ubiquity), we never ran into this problem simply because of localechooser-data:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/preseed/+bug/1923833

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

leh sigh.

I think the right way forward is for ubiquity to publish _standalone_ ubiquity-localechooser-data like package, which otherwise has no other ubiquity dependencies.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

or do you not need localechooser-data at all for calamares?

[ԜаӀtеr Ⅼарсһуnѕkі (wxl)]

@xnox that's a very good question. What I can say is that Calamares does look for locales (/usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED, locale.gen, `locale -a`, in that order) and certainly does include its own functionality for choosing through those options. That said, I don't *think* it needs it. We did take today's image and removed all the ubiquity-* packages, ran Calamares, and it seemed like everything worked just fine. So I guess you could make the depend calamares | ubiquity but that seems rather bizarre to me. I mean, after all, the issue here is that the installer requires this, right? So why not have casper depend on no installer and make the installer have the dependency?

[Sai Vinoba (saivinob)]

The installer desktop file on 20210414 is 'ubiquity-kdeui.desktop' calling `ubiquity kde_ui` whereas in previous iso it is 'lubuntu-calamares.desktop'.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

fixed the localechooser noudeb build, and re-uploaded.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hey everyone! Could someone check the latest Lubuntu and see if our re-instantiation of localechooser helped? Thanks!

[Chris Guiver (guiverc)]

Yep, it helped.

http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/419/builds/229590/testcases/1701/results shows 5 successful installs so far.

Thanks folks. :)

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Awesome! Adjusting the affected packages list and closing this.