Public bug reported:
I use remastersys (yes I know it isn't supported anymore, but it still
works fine with 14.04 trusty) to make custom ISOs.
Last week after doing a "dist-upgrade" and then running remastersys, the
resulting ISOs, would go to a login screen when starting the Live
Session instead of booting all the way to the Live Session desktop.
I have done this process many times for Ubuntu 14.04, and never had this
problem, even though a google search will show several others in the
past have had this issue. You can get around the login screen by using
the remastersys ID from /etc/remastersys.conf and a password of <blank>,
but this didn't work all the time for me (I think it is fairly reliable
with lightdm, but we use mdm from LinuxMint, which would not accept the
blank password and would stay "stuck" at the login screen).
After a lot of trial and error in trying to isolate what changed, I have
found that casper 1.340.2 is the source of the problem. If I "hold"
casper at 1.340 like this:
apt-mark hold casper ubiquity-casper
After applying this command to my test machine, and then doing a dist-
upgrade, and then running remastersys, the resulting ISOs boot correctly
to the Live Session desktop.
If, however, casper updates to 1.340.2, the resulting ISOs will go to
the login screen and get stuck.
I have attempted to scan the changes to casper and am not able to
understand what is causing the problem, but it definitely is something
to do with casper 1.340.2.
** Affects: casper (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: remastersys
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Title:
casper 1.340.2: with remastersys goes to login screen instead of
direct to Live Session
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