Hi folks! So I just spent an hour or two debugging an unexpected change in behaviour in the openQA base images. I've figured out what's going on, but I'm unsure if it's intended. There was a change to anaconda between Fedora 25 and Fedora 26 which causes it to write a line: post_install_tools_disabled=1 to /etc/sysconfig/anaconda for all kickstarted installs where there is no explicit 'firstboot' directive in the kickstart. (Prior to Fedora 26, anaconda would disable 'initial-setup.service' by default for kickstarted installs, but it didn't write that line, or disable gnome- initial-setup - either mode - in any way.) It seems that gnome-initial-setup reads that file on startup, and if it sees that post_install_tools_disabled is set, it will kinda short- circuit - it won't display its UI at all, it'll just do its shutdown tasks (create ~/.config/gnome-initial-setup-done and so on) and then quit. It doesn't only do this in its system-wide, 'run before gdm if no user accounts exist' mode - it also does it when running in its 'first login to GNOME as any user' mode. So an effect of this change - which may not have been intended - is that on most kickstarted installs of Fedora 26+, gnome-initial-setup does not run *even in 'first login to a user account' mode*. (This is the change that affected openQA). I can't immediately see that it makes logical sense to disable this g-i-s mode on kickstarted installs by default, but maybe someone disagrees. Anyway, just wanted to raise this issue for discussion between desktop and anaconda folks (who are CCed on this), before filing bugs anywhere. Thanks! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
