remove /var/lib/dbus/machine-id from installed image
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubuntu-server-iso-testing |
Fix Released
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High
|
Jean-Baptiste Lallement | ||
casper (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Critical
|
Unassigned | ||
dbus (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
live-build (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Critical
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Adam Conrad | ||
livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: livecd-rootfs
Havoc Pennington reported that /var/lib/
We do have an upgrade problem, though; a number of people will have installed from previous versions of the live CD and will have duplicated machine-ids, although we can't feasibly identify the list of machine-ids involved (and it would be huge). I'm opening a task on dbus as well to figure out how to do something about it on upgrade. Maybe the answer is that everyone should have their machine-id forcibly regenerated on the first boot after upgrading to some nominated version of dbus?
Related branches
- C de-Avillez (community): Approve
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Diff: 68 lines (+31/-0)2 files modifiedtemplates.desktop/test_cases/default/test (+13/-0)
templates.desktop/test_cases/livesession/test (+18/-0)
Changed in live-build (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
importance: | Undecided → Critical |
assignee: | nobody → Adam Conrad (adconrad) |
Changed in ubuntu-server-iso-testing: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
importance: | Undecided → High |
assignee: | nobody → Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) |
Changed in casper (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Colin Watson (cjwatson) |
importance: | Undecided → Critical |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in ubuntu-server-iso-testing: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
Changed in ubuntu-server-iso-testing: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Changed in dbus (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Invalid |
This bug was fixed in the package livecd-rootfs - 0.77
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livecd-rootfs (0.77) jaunty; urgency=low
* Remove the D-Bus machine identifier from the livefs; it needs to be
unique, and it's generated at boot time if it's missing (LP: #322830).
-- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:21:23 +0000