Installing Freevo converts my regular desktop in an appliance, making it unusable otherwise

[Fabián Rodríguez]

Binary package hint: freevo

While trying different PVR-lie software such as XBMC I installed Freevo from the Ubuntu Software Center.

I couldn't locate it in the menus and forgot about it. This morning after a reboot following kernel updates, I ended up with the Freevo menu, my login screen were gone and shutting down Freevo shutdown the entire system, thus converting it in an appliance, without warning.

This effectively makes any Ubuntu desktop unusable and although I understand the reason this happens, it should not do so without any warning.

As a workaround I booted into recovery mode by pressing SHIFT at boot and choosing the second menu option from GRUB (ends with "recovery") , then "root" from the recovery menu presented. Once in a console I did:
apt-get purge remove freevo
reboot

That restored the original setup I had.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: freevo (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.38-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jul 28 19:32:50 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: freevo