[Bug 2046386] Re: Ubuntu Studio images aren't being built with a live user

[Erich Eickmeyer]

Confirmed this is resolved by the MP for debian-cd by booting and
changing the kernel boot params on the live-iso to match the one in the
MP.

** Changed in: livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

** Changed in: casper (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

** Package changed: debian-cd (Ubuntu) => debian-cd

** Description changed:

  This is a tracking bug to figure out the issue with Ubuntu Studio noble
  images not being built with a live user.
  
  This appeared after we started the transition to using ubuntustudio-
  system-installer (a fork of ubuntu-flavor-installer, itself a layer on
  top of ubuntu-desktop-installer). With Steve Langasek's guidance, we
  merged the code to livecd-rootfs to get .iso images building with
  ubuntustudio-system-installer, but the system boots to a blank black
  screen with a mouse cursor themed with the Breeze cursor theme from KDE
  Plasma Desktop, meaning something is attempting to be loaded here.
  
  However, switching to a VM results in a login prompt, but attempts to
  login as "ubuntu-studio" as in the past proved in vain. Upon
  investigating the squashfs image, no user directories populate the /home
  directory, suggesting casper never creates the ubuntu-studio user.
  
- I noticed that all previous flavors (Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Budgie)
- using ubuntu-desktop-installer have something similar to the following
- line:
+ This is fixed by changing the KERNEL_PARAMS line to the following:
  
- > add_package standard.live linux-$KERNEL_FLAVOURS casper
- 
- While, in theory, this would mean simply adding casper to the live seed
- would fix it, in practice, adding casper to the live seed for Ubuntu
- Studio does not.
- 
- Therefore, this is either a bug in livecd-rootfs or casper itself. Right
- now, I have a MP open in livecd-rootfs as I suspect, based on the other
- flavors' stanzas, that this one line change should fix it, but it could
- also be that casper itself is not doing its job.
+ > KERNEL_PARAMS="${KERNEL_PARAMS:+$KERNEL_PARAMS }layerfs-
+ path=standard.live.squashfs --- quiet splash"

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  Ubuntu Studio images aren't being built with a live user

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