Bug #717298 debian-installer: After installing xfce environment, don't see xfce

[Holger Wansing]

Peter Chubb  (19 Jul 2013):
> I did a clean install using the netboot.tar.gz +pxe method, 
> selecting the XFCE desktop environment.  But when the machine booted, 
> it presented a Gnome desktop environment.  I expected to see XFCE.
> 
> 
> XFCE is present, and I was able to modify /etc/lighdm.conf to make it 
> be the default.  However, I expected it to be this way out of the box, 
> and for gnome not to be installed at all.

I tested this with a recent netboot image, installing the testing release.

I chose xfce as desktop, and all worked fine, xfce was installed and started 
automatically.

Thus this has been fixed in the meantime...

So closing this bug.


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Bug#717298: debian-installer: After installing xfce environment, don't see xfce

[Cyril Brulebois]

Thorsten Glaser  (2016-08-10):
> Oh, okay. I only found it because I was searching for which desktop=
> command line options are valid for d-i (to tell a coworker), and since
> there is no documentation for it I’ve looked into the sources which I
> had lying around on my workstation (due to me building a monolith
> image for myself locally) already anyway.

tasksel.git:debian/templates has:
| Template: tasksel/desktop
| Type: multiselect
| Choices: gnome, kde, xfce, lxde, cinnamon, mate
| Description: This can be preseeded to override the default desktop.


KiBi.


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[Thorsten Glaser]

Christian PERRIER dixit:

>Well, desktop-chooser is a package that has never been released, so I
>doubt the problem comes from it.

Oh, okay. I only found it because I was searching for which desktop=
command line options are valid for d-i (to tell a coworker), and since
there is no documentation for it I’ve looked into the sources which I
had lying around on my workstation (due to me building a monolith image
for myself locally) already anyway.

>Anyway, your patch is still valid (so, thank you) and I'll apply it to
>desktop-chooser's git in case someone does something with it in the
>future...

OK.

bye,
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Bug#717298: debian-installer: After installing xfce environment, don't see xfce

[Christian PERRIER]

Quoting Thorsten Glaser (t...@mirbsd.de):
> Package: debian-installer
> Followup-For: Bug #717298
> 
> This is probably because of this…
> 
> Choices-C: kde, gnome, lxde, xfcd, sugar  
>
> 
> … in 
> debian-installer/packages/desktop-chooser/debian/desktop-chooser.templates.
> 
> Quick fix attached.

Well, desktop-chooser is a package that has never been released, so I
doubt the problem comes from it.

Anyway, your patch is still valid (so, thank you) and I'll apply it to
desktop-chooser's git in case someone does something with it in the
future...




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Bug#717298: debian-installer: After installing xfce environment, don't see xfce

[Thorsten Glaser]

Package: debian-installer
Followup-For: Bug #717298

This is probably because of this…

Choices-C: kde, gnome, lxde, xfcd, sugar
 

… in debian-installer/packages/desktop-chooser/debian/desktop-chooser.templates.

Quick fix attached.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/lksh
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
>From 049ec0929973c5a8f570496bb8062b58f75f00ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mirabilos 
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 16:45:14 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?fix=20typo:=20xfcd=20=E2=86=92=20xfce?=
MIME-Version: 1.0
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Signed-off-by: mirabilos 
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 debian/desktop-chooser.templates | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/debian/desktop-chooser.templates b/debian/desktop-chooser.templates
index 62243bf..826a20b 100644
--- a/debian/desktop-chooser.templates
+++ b/debian/desktop-chooser.templates
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Description: for internal use only
 Template: desktop-chooser/suite
 Type: multiselect
 __Choices: The K Desktop Environment, GNU Object Model Environment, Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment, Xfce Desktop Environment, Sugar Learning Platform
-Choices-C: kde, gnome, lxde, xfcd, sugar
+Choices-C: kde, gnome, lxde, xfce, sugar
 Default: gnome
 _Description: Which desktop environments should be installed?
  There are several alternative Desktop environments available in
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Bug#717298: debian-installer: After installing xfce environment, don't see xfce

[Cyril Brulebois]

Control: notfound -1 Jessie

Peter Chubb peter.ch...@nicta.com.au (2013-07-19):
 Package: debian-installer
 Version: Jessie
 Severity: normal

Jessie isn't a known version of debian-installer in the archive, so
removing it from the found list for this bug report.

 I did a clean install using the netboot.tar.gz +pxe method, 
 selecting the XFCE desktop environment.  But when the machine booted, 
 it presented a Gnome desktop environment.  I expected to see XFCE.
 
 
 XFCE is present, and I was able to modify /etc/lighdm.conf to make it 
 be the default.  However, I expected it to be this way out of the box, 
 and for gnome not to be installed at all.

It would probably be nice to check what happens with the next d-i
upload (which will happen after eglibc 2.18 migrates to testing);
the default desktop change might have changed a few things…

Thanks for your report.

Mraw,
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 notfound -1 Jessie
Bug #717298 [debian-installer] debian-installer: After installing xfce 
environment, don't see xfce
There is no source info for the package 'debian-installer' at version 'Jessie' 
with architecture ''
Unable to make a source version for version 'Jessie'
No longer marked as found in versions Jessie.

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Bug#717298: debian-installer: After installing xfce environment, don't see xfce

[Peter Chubb]

Package: debian-installer
Version: Jessie
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
I did a clean install using the netboot.tar.gz +pxe method, 
selecting the XFCE desktop environment.  But when the machine booted, 
it presented a Gnome desktop environment.  I expected to see XFCE.


XFCE is present, and I was able to modify /etc/lighdm.conf to make it 
be the default.  However, I expected it to be this way out of the box, 
and for gnome not to be installed at all.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.9-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash


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