When ubiquity is in maybe-ubiquity or only-ubiquity, there is no way to access tty2-6

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

[Impact]

 * When launching "Install Ubuntu" or when present with try or install ubuntu screen, one cannot login on tty2-6.

 * This impacts debugging facilities during installation.

 * It appears that getty.target is not required by ubiquity, therefore gettys on tty2-6 are not spawned, and no users are allowed to login.

[Test Case]

 * Boot Ubuntu Desktop CD

 * Select "Install Ubuntu" in the isolinux menu, or the UEFI menu

 * When presented with ubiquity screen, press Ctrl-Alt-F2 to open up tty2

 * Login as user "ubuntu" with no password. If login prompt never appears (current behaviour) this bug is still present.

[Regression Potential]

 * I have not tested this change in the OEM mode yet

[Potential fix]
 * Add to ubiquity.service [Unit] section
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  Requires=getty.target

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

This is very similar to bug 1567194, and that one was not easy to fix. My gut feeling is that this applies to tty1 as well and it is a duplicate.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Hello Dimitri, or anyone else affected,

Accepted ubiquity into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/18.04.5 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 18.04.5

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ubiquity (18.04.5) bionic; urgency=medium

  [ Steve Langasek ]
  * Don't block plymouth-quit-wait on the ubiquity greeter; we want ttys to
    be able to start in parallel for debuggability of ubiquity. Blocking
    plymouth-quit is sufficient to ensure ordering.
  * scripts/start-ubiquity-dm: start on vt1 now instead of vt7, consistent
    with grub, plymouth, and gdm in 18.04. Tested on Ubuntu Desktop with
    both "Try" and "Install" options. (LP: #1632151)

  [ Heber Parruci ]
  * autopilot: Update tests to match new UI for Updates and software page.

  [ Mike Gabriel ]
  * debian/control: Drop gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1. A11y support
    is not using AppIndicator anymore (LP: #1760701)

  [ Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre ]
  * Automatic update of included source packages: partman-crypto
    86ubuntu2, partman-lvm 123.

 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <email address hidden> Tue, 10 Apr 2018 11:17:42 -0400