[Bug 1548864] Re: Ubuntu GNOME Xenial live image boots to tty1 and demands password

[Erick Brunzell]

This affects two totally different sets of hardware using the Ubuntu
GNOME 20160323.1 amd64 image:

(1) AMD Sempron LE-1250 @ 2.2 GHz w/nVidia C61 [GeForce 7025 / nForce
630a]

(2) Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5300 @ 2.60GHz w/Intel GMA4500 Graphics

And it's worse because after waiting 2 to 3 minutes for that tty1 prompt
to disappear you're asked for a password and just leaving it blank
doesn't work.

The only way I've found to get these images to work is to boot from the
advanced boot menu. Booting the image in EFI mode it works fine. I wish
we'd just stop hiding the advanced boot menu ;^)

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Title:
  Ubuntu GNOME Xenial live image boots to tty1 and demands password

Status in casper package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Testing Ubuntu GNOME Xenial 20160222.1 amd64 and I find that selecting
  Try Ubuntu GNOME from the standard boot menu displays TTY 1 and
  requests a username but the keyboard appears to enter no text. It will
  however eventually boot to the login screen. After several tries I
  find the following steps reproduce the behavior:

  (1) Boot Ubuntu GNOME Xenial live image, wait for the standard boot menu to appear, and select Try Ubuntu GNOME.
  (2) You'll find that the screen displays TTY1 + requesting a user name.
  (3) Do nothing and wait 2 to 3 minutes after which a GUI login screen appears.
  (4) Click on Live session user and a new screen appears requesting a password.
  (5) Enter nothing and press Enter and you'll finally get to the live desktop.

  I was going to upload some pics of what happens but I'm unable to
  mount my camera in the live session.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: casper 1.367
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-6.21-generic 4.4.1
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-6-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.367
  CurrentDesktop: GNOME
  Date: Tue Feb 23 14:58:37 2016
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-GNOME 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20160222.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: casper
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  mtime.conffile..etc.casper.conf: 2016-02-23T14:53:15.379536

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