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[Efren D. Montales Jr.]

Description: Ubuntu oneiric (development branch)
Release: 11.10

XUBUNTU 20110902 iso image

TEST CASES:

1. Boot the iso on virtualbox
2. Select language
3. Select install Xubuntu

Result:

Embedded language options not displayed, some image as well, fall back to classic view.

Screenshots attached.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for reporting this issue. This is a change since beta1 released.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

I have confirmed this issue in both hardware and VirtualBox. It was not present in Beta1 testing, thus is a regression in Ubiquity.

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[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

In beta1 testing, were you running in the only-ubiquity session or in the XFCE session? I suspect that this is only present in the only-ubiquity session with xubuntu. Mythbuntu encountered something similar and has a casper hook for this to set the theme.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

It only happens when selecting "Install Xubuntu" from the menu after selecting the language. I tested using the icon on the live desktop, using the menu -> System -> Install, and using "install Xubuntu" from the cd menu.

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

> Mythbuntu encountered something similar and has a casper hook for this to set the theme.

And where can we find it? Thanks.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

mythbuntu's casper hooks appear to be in the mythbuntu-live-autostart package.

$ dpkg -c ~/ubuntu/pool/universe/m/mythbuntu-live-autostart/mythbuntu-live-autostart_0.57_all.deb |grep casper
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2011-08-29 07:43 ./usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/casper-bottom/
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 814 2011-02-25 06:33 ./usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/casper-bottom/46disable_services
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 1484 2010-09-12 15:25 ./usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/casper-bottom/47fixup_icons
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 588 2010-08-25 17:46 ./usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/casper-bottom/48maybe_ubiquity
$

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Thanks, I found them while searching but I wasn't sure they were the correct ones.

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Hi ubuntu-release,

I'm not really sure how to fix that in the least intrusive way at this point: the hook needs some casper functions, so if I put it in xubuntu-default-settings, it will show an error (but harmless in fact) each time update-initramfs is run, because casper isn't present on a common xubuntu install.

So I've added a new binary package to xubuntu-default-settings, called xubuntu-live-settings. It will be present only in live builds -- I'll update the seeds (like mythbuntu-live-autostart). It only contains the hook (/usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/casper-bottom/48xubuntu_maybe_ubiquity) needed for only-ubiquity to fix the issue described here (Embedded language options not displayed, some image as well, fall back to classic view). This should work fine (this is what mythbuntu does as well), and I tested that there's no regression in the existing xubuntu-default-settings binary package.

So, because of the new binary package, the build would have to go through binary new. Is it fine like that?

Thanks.

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Here's a candidate debdiff (changelog not written yet). Note that most of the changes are packaging changes because of the introduction of the new binary package: renamed debian/{preinst,postrm,postinst,gconf-defaults} to debian/xubuntu-default-settings.{preinst,postrm,postinst,gconf-defaults}.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package xubuntu-default-settings - 12.04.0

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xubuntu-default-settings (12.04.0) precise; urgency=low

  * Fix broken theme in only-ubiquity mode (lp: #840094):
    - debian/control: add a new xubuntu-live-settings binary package.
    - debian/{gconf-defaults,post*,pre*}: renamed to
      debian/xubuntu-default-settings.*.
    - debian/*.install: added, now that we have several binary packages.
    - casper/48xubuntu_maybe_ubiquity: added, stolen from
      mythbuntu-live-autostart.
  * debian/xubuntu-default-settings.gconf-defaults: fix default command to
    browse a device with blueman. lp: #882621
  * etc/xdg/xdg-xubuntu/Terminal/terminalrc: reduce the default font size
    for xfce4-terminal. lp: #752886
  * etc/skel/.xscreensaver: added, set blank mode by default. lp: #799268
  * Call dh_installgsettings instead of manually shipping an override file.
 -- Lionel Le Folgoc <email address hidden> Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:39:27 +0100

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

xubuntu-live-settings package needs to be added to the seeds (only for 'live', I guess).

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