oem-config-prepare seems to work but after rebooting the config doesn't start

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

ISO Testing Lucid Alternate i386 20110211.3

After installation Lucid OEM, oem-config-prepare seems to run correctly. But when I restart, the user OEM is logged again and the config of the initial user doesn't start.

I attach the logs with the debug-oem-config kernel command line argument.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: ubiquity 2.2.25
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-28.55-generic 2.6.32.27+drm33.12
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-28-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Feb 16 17:20:13 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20110211.3)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

I think this is a problem with upstart. If I boot in rescue mode instead of normal boot after the oem-config-prepare step, suddenly X starts, and the user configuration step begin.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

If I boot with --verbose and without 'quiet splash' on the kernel command line, the boot is much slower and ubiquity starts as expected. This would suggest a race of some kind.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

A guess is that the upstart job for oem-config starts too early.
Removing the line
or stopping rc RUNLEVEL=[2345])

to force the job to start when gdm starts workaround the issue. This is just a suggestion and I don't know if its the right fix.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Now that enough information has been collected, I'm marking as dup of bug 650703 which is the same issue.