noninteractive installer mode still starts X

[Michael Brown]

When 'noninteractive' is added to the kernel command line in automatic-ubiquity mode, ubiquity still starts X and tries to display a progress box.

Would like a way to perform a 100% text mode install in order to prevent installation failures on machines where X is not supported out of the box.

More of a feature request than a bug, per-se.

[Jose De la Rosa (jose-de-la-rosa)]

Targeting for Hardy.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Are you aware that there is another installer available which is text-based and also supports automation?

This installer is used on the "alternate" CDs, is also available on the DVDs, and uses the debian-installer UI.

[Michael Brown (michael-e-brown)]

Yes, I am aware of the ALT CD. We cannot use it, as it is MUCH too slow. Because the alt cd installs each deb package individually, the installation takes much longer. The live CD is just a filecopy of the already-installed files, so it is way faster.

We actually used ALT CD for our first iteration of factory install, but it was pretty unmaintainable. The only way we could make it fast enough was to install a system, tar up the results, and then untar it in the factory. This ends up being very bad because of hardware detection that happens on install.

All in all, the live CD is the best choice of installer for us. The *only* problem with it so far is on some platforms where X does not work out of the box, we have to do some suboptimal workarounds (force vesa, then reconfigure X later.)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 1.7.5

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ubiquity (1.7.5) hardy; urgency=low

  [ Evan Dandrea ]
  * Add accessibility support to 'only-ubiquity'.
  * Move noninteractive frontend to a purely gobject-based event loop
    (LP: #149477).
  * Noninteractive mode now implies --automatic (LP: #149473).
  * Add new nautilus gconf keys to the list we temporarily disable to
    prevent constant pop-ups.
  * Automatic update of included source packages: console-setup
    1.21ubuntu2, migration-assistant 0.6.0, partman-target 52ubuntu3,
    user-setup 1.16ubuntu3.

  [ Mario Limonciello ]
  * Add proper theme support to mythbuntu FE.

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Update console-setup component for layout and variant changes in
    console-setup 1.21ubuntu1.
  * Run fontconfig-voodoo with --force.
  * Call 'fontconfig-voodoo --auto --force --quiet' when the language is
    changed. May help with LP #185269.

 -- Evan Dandrea <email address hidden> Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:32:25 -0500

[Timothy R. Chavez (timrchavez)]

The bug task for the somerville project has been removed by an automated script. This bug has been cloned on that project and is available here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1306072