Bug 963935

*** Bug 963967 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

OK, let's make this the single bug for the proposed way forward here. As discussed at https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-May/183027.html , it is planned for initial-setup to display only spokes that were not completed in anaconda.

We really should do that for F19 Final. The current behaviour, where it shows all three spokes it supports in all cases, looks odd to the user and introduces far too many paths that could be broken.

There are some other things to consider here, though. If we just go with 'display spokes that weren't done in anaconda', consider the case where the user creates an admin user account in anaconda. Is the root spoke considered 'not done'? Does initial-setup run, and only show the root password spoke? I don't think that would be much use to anyone.

Personally I think i-s behaviour should be very simple: in the 'normal' use case, discounting OEM installs, it should only ever run to show the user creation spoke if user creation was not done during installation, and if user creation was done during installation, it should not run at all. Aside from the OEM case I don't think the root password and date/time spokes should ever be shown.

Note: we do actually have an 'OEM' case that affects Fedora, which didn't occur to me when we were discussing this in IRC: ARM installs. Dennis tells me that F19 ARM images will rely on initial-setup to configure a root password and user account for the system.

So we probably do need to address the 'OEM' case for F19 as an urgent requirement, so ARM can rely on it. Prioritizing the 'normal' (i.e. x86) case and leaving OEM as a lower priority for later is not feasible, we at least need to make sure we can use the 'OEM' mode for ARM installs.

(In reply to Adam Williamson from comment #3)
> Note: we do actually have an 'OEM' case that affects Fedora, which didn't
> occur to me when we were discussing this in IRC: ARM installs. Dennis tells
> me that F19 ARM images will rely on initial-setup to configure a root
> password and user account for the system.
> 
> So we probably do need to address the 'OEM' case for F19 as an urgent
> requirement, so ARM can rely on it. Prioritizing the 'normal' (i.e. x86)
> case and leaving OEM as a lower priority for later is not feasible, we at
> least need to make sure we can use the 'OEM' mode for ARM installs.
ok, so what is the final direction we should go with these issues? I was thinking about adding '--oem' to the 'firstboot' kickstart command [1], but there already is the '--reconfig' option so I think it would be better to make it work again instead of adding another option.

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart#firstboot

Without the '--reconfig' used in the kickstart, the i-s would show only the user creation spoke (if user is not created in the installation). With the '--reconfig' option used, on the other hand, it would show all that is implemented for it -- maybe also the language and keyboard settings in future?

Does this sound usable? I believe it shouldn't be a problem for the ARM team to add one line to their kickstart file(s).

That sounds fine to me in theory, yes. Best way forward would likely be to implement it quickly and get it in early Final builds so we can tweak it if anyone complains :) Paul, Dennis, does the above plan sound viable for ARM?

that sounds fine. i can add support to appliance-creator to make sure --reconfig is passed on if needed. I need to file a bug for another issue we are seeing in text mode.

No additional info needed, patches posted to anaconda-patches.

The patches make the 'firstboot --reconfig' option work as described above and hide the spokes completed in the installation process. Please add the 'firstboot --reconfig' to the kickstart file that is used for creating ARM images.

GOOD: in tc6, if you don't create a user in anaconda, only the user spoke is shown in i-s.
GOOD: in tc6, if you create a user in anaconda, i-s does not show at all.
BAD/WEIRD: in tc6, if you don't create a user in anaconda or i-s, logging in as root graphically (to LXDE) fails, and logging in as root to a console is weirdly slow (possibly related to ConsoleKit failing to start up)?

BAD/WEIRD needs more investigation, but this looks good otherwise.

Looks like BAD/WEIRD is just a generic bug with logging in as root before any user logs in on the LXDE image (at least), nothing more. I'll investigate and file separately. This update is not relevant to it. VERIFIED.

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