Bug 884843 - exiting from advanced user creation program in firstboot breaks firstboot
Summary: exiting from advanced user creation program in firstboot breaks firstboot
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firstboot
Version: 18
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Vratislav Podzimek
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-12-06 20:17 UTC by Aleksandar Kostadinov
Modified: 2013-12-31 01:55 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: firstboot-18.7-1.fc18
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
x86_64, installed from live DVD
Last Closed: 2013-10-14 10:50:45 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Aleksandar Kostadinov 2012-12-06 20:17:41 UTC
I wanted to run firstboot again after I hit Bug #884833
So I did:
rm /etc/sysconfig/firstboot
touch /etc/reconfigSys

Rebooted and I see saw an error, then very fast the normal fedora login screen hided it. I logged in as root on tty2 and tried running firstboot from console. That moved me back to tty1 with the error in upper part of the screen in I don't know what mode of the screen because mouse cursor was moving, the screen was black except the text error at the top. Sorry I didn't take note of the message.

I could not recover graphical interface so had to reboot. Finally logged in as root and in graphical mode and run firstboot from terminal. That worked fine and I'm now happy.

I think all this needs to be done foolproof.

Comment 1 Martin Sivák 2013-01-25 13:54:34 UTC
This should be fixed by firstboot catching SystemExit exception. Patch implementing this will be present in firstboot-18.7

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2013-01-25 14:20:49 UTC
firstboot-18.7-1.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/firstboot-18.7-1.fc18

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2013-01-26 15:54:41 UTC
Package firstboot-18.7-1.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-18.7-1.fc18'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-1518/firstboot-18.7-1.fc18
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 4 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2013-10-14 09:19:30 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2013-12-31 01:55:27 UTC
firstboot-18.7-1.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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