[Hardy] No Xorg in live cd

[Leonel Nunez]

Trying to install Hardy Heron Alpha 1 on a qemu image can't confgure xorg with failsafe and boot process stops

[Leonel Nunez (leonelnunez)]

This is the screenshot for the boot:

and

I can Switch to the terminal 1 but when I try to dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg there's no config file

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Sounds like a consequence of the no-xorg.conf issue

[Leonel Nunez (leonelnunez)]

Boot l on a normal pc ( not qemu ) and the desktop showed fine
no gnome-panel but the install icon showed

[Leonel Nunez (leonelnunez)]

installed server cd then with today upgrade all worked fine ..

[Sidarth Dasari (sirsid)]

I get this same error when I enable my second monitor. Both through the screens and graphics option and through creating/editing a xorg.conf

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Talked with timo about this:

<tjaalton> and that's simple to fix in livecd-rootfs (create a new file after it removes the existing one)
 then the situation would be the same as after preinst
 =empty file, and a md5sum that matches it
<tjaalton> the session runs reconfigure already, but currently that fails
 so we don't need to touch anything in addition to livecd-rootfs
 I'm not sure what actually broke this in hardy, but it's a lot more complicated to fix in xserver-xorg
 l-r removes the file because it needs to have a clean start (=dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg), but that fails because the postinst notices that there is no xorg.conf, and thinks that's how the user wants
<bryce> so, is the right fix to make livecd-rootfs not remove that file to begin with, or to add a control for the dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg call to make it generate the xorg.conf even if it's missing, or...?
<tjaalton> I'm thinking that let it remove the file, then touch a new one (=md5sum matches since it's empty as the one created on preinst) :)
 and do that in livecd-rootfs
<bryce> will that fix the issue though?
<tjaalton> it should
 since that's pretty much how the preinst would have done
 although I'm not sure if the md5sum should be recreated also
 probably
 look at livecd.sh from livecd-rootfs
 it does all sort of cleaning on the chroot

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Proposed fix attached... I'm not certain where in livecd.sh the touch should go, so stuck it in right after the rm. Is this right?

http://people.ubuntu.com/~bryce/Testing/livecd-rootfs/

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Fix uploaded by Timo this afternoon.

We believe this fixes the issue, and will be available in Hardy Alpha-2; please test and if the issue still exists, reopen this bug.