Bug 849118

Firstboot didn't showed up in XFCE too. I'm assuming that firstboot doesn't start at all.

Discussed at 2012-08-20 QA meeting, acting as a blocker review meeting: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2012-08-20/fedora-qa.2012-08-20-15.00.html . Jan mentioned in the meeting that this also affects a KDE install; he could not test a desktop/GNOME install, due to packaging issues. With the information that KDE (a supported desktop) is affected, the bug was accepted as a blocker per criterion "In most cases (see Blocker_Bug_FAQ), a system installed according to any of the above criteria must boot to the 'firstboot' utility on the first boot after installation, without unintended user intervention, unless the user explicitly chooses to boot in non-graphical mode. The firstboot utility must be able to create a working user account."

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/sbin/firstboot", line 96, in <module>
    frontend.set_lang()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/firstboot/frontend.py", line 45, in set_lang
    i18n = shlex.split(open(I18N).read())
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/sysconfig/i18n'

CC'in vpodzime as msivak is on vacation.

And with proper /etc/sysconfig/i18n

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/firstboot", line 104, in <module>
    import meh.ui.gui
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/meh/ui/gui.py", line 23, in <module>
    from gi.repository import Gtk
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 23, in <module>
    from ._gi import _API, Repository
ImportError: could not import gobject (error was: ImportError('When using gi.repository you must not import static modules like "gobject". Please change all occurrences of "import gobject" to "from gi.repository import GObject".',))

(In reply to comment #3)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/sbin/firstboot", line 96, in <module>
>     frontend.set_lang()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/firstboot/frontend.py", line 45, in
> set_lang
>     i18n = shlex.split(open(I18N).read())
> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/sysconfig/i18n'
This is a bug in Anaconda -- new bug  (#849967) created as a clone of this bug.

(In reply to comment #4)
> And with proper /etc/sysconfig/i18n
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/sbin/firstboot", line 104, in <module>
>     import meh.ui.gui
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/meh/ui/gui.py", line 23, in <module>
>     from gi.repository import Gtk
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 23, in
> <module>
>     from ._gi import _API, Repository
> ImportError: could not import gobject (error was: ImportError('When using
> gi.repository you must not import static modules like "gobject". Please
> change all occurrences of "import gobject" to "from gi.repository import
> GObject".',))
This is caused by importing python-meh which was ported to Gtk3. python-meh's ui has to be removed from firstboot's exception handling.

What does the 'POST' status on this bug mean? There is no firstboot mailing list that I can find, I do not see a patch for it posted to devel@ or anaconda-devel-list, and I do not see any commit in git. There doesn't appear to be a fedorahosted.org git repo for firstboot-the-code (as opposed to firstboot-the-package). So I cannot figure out where a fix for this bug can possibly be 'POST'ed if it's not in any of those places...

(In reply to comment #7)
> What does the 'POST' status on this bug mean? There is no firstboot mailing
> list that I can find, I do not see a patch for it posted to devel@ or
> anaconda-devel-list, and I do not see any commit in git. There doesn't
> appear to be a fedorahosted.org git repo for firstboot-the-code (as opposed
> to firstboot-the-package). So I cannot figure out where a fix for this bug
> can possibly be 'POST'ed if it's not in any of those places...
Patch for this issue has been posted to anaconda-patches-list.

(In reply to comment #7)
> What does the 'POST' status on this bug mean? There is no firstboot mailing
> list that I can find, I do not see a patch for it posted to devel@ or
> anaconda-devel-list, and I do not see any commit in git. There doesn't
> appear to be a fedorahosted.org git repo for firstboot-the-code (as opposed
> to firstboot-the-package). So I cannot figure out where a fix for this bug
> can possibly be 'POST'ed if it's not in any of those places...
git for firstboot-the-code is here:
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/firstboot.git

Ah, cool - in that case, the firstboot spec should reflect this. Right now it just says:

# This is a Red Hat maintained package which is specific to
# our distribution.  Thus the source is only available from
# within this srpm.
Source0: %{name}-%{version}.tar.gz

which obviously isn't true any more.

firstboot-18.2-1.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/firstboot-18.2-1.fc18

Package firstboot-18.2-1.fc18:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 18 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing firstboot-18.2-1.fc18'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-12614/firstboot-18.2-1.fc18
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

firstboot-18.2-1.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.