debconf/priority not respected
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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cdebconf (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Starting with the bionic ISOs setting the debconf priority level via `debconf/
Steps to reproduce:
1. Download daily bionic ISO from http://
2. Pull out the kernel and initrd
$ mkdir iso
$ bsdtar xfp bionic-
$ cp iso/install/vmlinuz .
$ cp iso/install/
3. Create QEMU disk
$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 vdisk.img 4G
4. Launch ISO via QEMU with debconf/priority set on cmdline:
$ qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -cpu host -m 1024 -boot d \
-initrd initrd.gz -kernel kernel -display none -nographic \
-hda vdisk.img -cdrom bionic-
-append 'console=ttyS0 locale=en_US.UTF-8 debconf/
The installer will ask you for keyboard layout, which is not expected as the priority on those questions is high, not critical.
5. Change 'debconf/
The expected behavior is that debconf/
Here are two example installer syslogs show how artful does and bionic does not respect the debconf/priority setting. In both you can clearly see it set on the cmdline, however see debconf does not respect it:
artful: http://
bionic: http://
description: | updated |
affects: | debconf (Ubuntu) → cdebconf (Ubuntu) |