On a fresh KDE installation of 20080418 rawhide, firstboot did not run. Unfortunately, I just blew away that VM for some preupgrade testing, but the steps to reproduce are essentially install with KDE and not Gnome, and watch firstboot not run. Let me know if there's more data I need to gather.
Do you have a /etc/sysconfig/firstboot file? If so what does it contain? What does chkconfig --list firstboot say? Are there any /tmp/firstboot-* files? If so, please attach them to this bug report.
No /etc/sysconfig/firstboot, checked that. I'll have to do another install to figure out the rest, the VM is gone now.
Gack, of course I install again and firstboot works. This was 20080421 rawhide, but I don't think there were any relevant changes between the two. I'll experiment some more this evening. Removing from the release blocker for now.
I'll try to reproduce it this evening as well. I should still have the 421 rawhide sitting on my laptop from an unused preupgrade.
Fresh KDE-only install from today's (20080422) rawhide did not run firstboot. chkconfig --list firstboot shows it being on for runlevels 3 and 5. There's no /etc/sysconfig/firstboot, but there is a /tmp/firstboot-XXXXXX, containing the following traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/firstboot", line 170, in <module> moduleList = loadModules(config.moduleDir, mode) File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/firstboot/loader.py", line 93, in loadModules displayException(module=module) File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/firstboot/exceptionWindow.py", line 95, in displayException ExceptionWindow(text, module=module) File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/firstboot/exceptionWindow.py", line 32, in __init__ import gtk File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 79, in <module> _init() File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 67, in _init _gtk.init_check() RuntimeError: could not open display
Oh, excellent. I love when there's errors in the exception handling code so that we get that traceback instead of the real cause of the problem. However, what's really odd here is that there should be a display up and running at this point. Is this running with RHGB or not?
Mine was, not sure about Will's
This is reproducable outside of KDE-only installs. I just hit it.
I'm not seeing this any more. Is anyone else?
I just finished a fresh rawhide (Gnome) installation, and firstboot didn't run at first boot. I restarted the system, and it ran at second boot.
Deji, that sounds like another problem - there's some weird race condition that we've been trying (and failing) to reproduce reliably. As for KDE-only installs - works fine for me.