No oem-id generated in OEM install mode

Confirmed on Intrepid. Eek!

Oh dear. I guess this never worked. Sigh. We should try to fix this for 8.04.2 as well.

For now, OEMs may apply the attached patch to /usr/share/ubiquity/install.py before starting the initial installation in order to fix this bug. My apologies for the inconvenience.

Hi Colin,

Thank you for spending time on this issue. By the way, we will not
release our system to this concerning customer until Sep. So, I think we
can wait for your official fix in 8.04.2.
--
Best Regards,

Chih Ho / FAE / Canonical Solutions Group / Canonical Inc.
http://www.canonical.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Watson <email address hidden>
Reply-To: Bug 251751 <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 251751] Re: No oem-d being generated on oem install mode
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:36:21 -0000

For now, OEMs may apply the attached patch to
/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py before starting the initial installation
in order to fix this bug. My apologies for the inconvenience.

** Attachment added: "oem-id.patch"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16317636/oem-id.patch

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu Hardy)
   Importance: Undecided => High
       Status: New => Triaged

** Summary changed:

- No oem-d being generated on oem install mode
+ No oem-id generated in OEM install mode

Note that 8.04.2 is likely to be scheduled for January, although we may release a fix for this to hardy-proposed before then.

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 1.9.7

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ubiquity (1.9.7) intrepid; urgency=low

  [ Evan Dandrea ]
  * Properly fix intltool dependency. Remove old copies of intltool
    scripts.
  * Add an auto-login option to the "Who are you?" page.

  [ Michael Terry ]
  * Ensure that some widget is focused after changing page (LP: #241367).

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Add a no-op compatibility shim for depmod. Some d-i code calls it after
    calling anna-install in order to make sure that new kernel modules are
    installed properly; this is unnecessary and slow in the live CD
    environment (LP: #251117).
  * Brown-paper-bag bug: open /target/var/log/installer/oem-id for writing
    (LP: #251751).
  * Update summary page to fetch the language name correctly from the new
    localechooser.
  * Set SCIM_USER and SCIM_HOME to force scim to use configuration and
    sockets from the live CD user rather than root (LP: #234208).
  * Use a single private debconf-communicate instance for five queries in
    base frontend initialisation rather than using the debconf_operation
    wrapper. This is less convenient, but significantly speeds up startup
    (in a kvm instance here, 19 seconds -> 4 seconds).
  * Remove hardcoded invisible_char properties in order to use GTK's
    defaults (LP: #225882).
  * GTK frontend:
    - Don't translate step_label when switching to the language page;
      on_language_treeview_selection_changed will take care of it if
      necessary, and the page-switch handler may not know the correct
      language (LP: #225876).
    - Bind the Delete key on the partition list to "Delete partition"
      (LP: #218936).
  * KDE frontend:
    - Make "Details" string on summary page translatable (LP: #190491).
  * Depend on rdate for clock-setup.
  * Automatic update of included source packages: apt-setup 1:0.37ubuntu3,
    clock-setup 0.96ubuntu1, localechooser 2.03ubuntu2, user-setup
    1.20ubuntu4.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:13:38 +0100

ubiquity 1.8.13 uploaded to hardy-proposed with this change.

Accepted ubiquity into hardy-proposed, please test and give feedback here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

preliminary desktop images for 8.04.2 that include this version of ubiquity are available at <http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/hardy/daily-live/current/>. Can someone please confirm that this bug is fixed in those images, so that we can copy ubiquity 1.8.13 into hardy-updates for 8.04.2?

I can verify that the oem config option of the desktop/live CD creates /var/log/installer/oem-id, as of the hardy 8.04.2 pre snapshot (build id 20090108.1).

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 1.8.13

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ubiquity (1.8.13) hardy-proposed; urgency=low

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Brown-paper-bag bug: open /target/var/log/installer/oem-id for writing
    (LP: #251751).
  * Automatic update of included source packages: base-installer
    1.86ubuntu2.3, console-setup 1.21ubuntu9, grub-installer 1.27ubuntu8.1,
    partman-base 114ubuntu6, partman-target 54ubuntu7, user-setup
    1.16ubuntu6.

  [ Evan Dandrea ]
  * Also set the EGID back to 0 when regaining privileges (LP: #288479).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:54:00 +0000