[Live-demo] Please help: Show-stopper bug blocking osgeo-live final release

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi Cameron,

I have just created an after RC1 build and the Autologin issue is gone. 
The only side effect is that the default session now is Xfce and not 
Xubuntu... other than that, the created iso seems to work great.

Alex, please advise.
Angelos

On 03/14/2011 12:23 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> People,
> We have a show-stopper bug which we would love to fix before releasing 
> OSGeo-Live, and we'd love some help to find a fix or work-around. - 
> especially as we are very short on time to solve this if we are 
> provide fixes in time for the German FOSSGIS conference.
>
> The Issue: Autologin doesn't work any more, meaning will need to be 
> told how to log in.
>
> Issue explained here:https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/691
>
> We are discussing on irc://freenode.net#osgeolive
>
> Schedule:
> * We need to get the ISO to Lars by Thursday 17 March in order to meet 
> the printing deadline.
> * Alex takes ~ 6 hours to create a build.
> * Assume that we will encounter errors in the build process (as has 
> been happening on most builds)
> * So I suggest that our drop dead date for finding a fix or workaround 
> will be Wed morning of 16 March, USA time. Although it will be much 
> safer if we can find a fix before then.
>
> I understand the problem is in remastersys, which from memory is 
> written in bash. I suggest digging through google and the remastersys 
> code would be a good start.
>
> Alex found the following thread discussing the issue.
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1133506
>
>
> On 14/03/11 01:05, Astrid Emde wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> what do we do if we can't claim OSGeo-Live 4.5 stable on Monday (which
>> means tomorrow)?
>>
>> Do we have a buffer? And make it stable some days later?
>>
>> Astrid
>>
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Angelos Tzotsos
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National Technical University of Athens
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