Public bug reported:
After upgrade to Feisty, having booted with XFCE as default (g?x?)dm
session, logged in to GNOME and said "yes, make that my default
session", and upgraded from Edgy using update-manager -d, the new
kernel's boot-splash artwork is for Kubuntu!
(looks duplicate of bug #23252, but kubuntu-artwork-usplash wasn't
installed until after that bug was marked fixed. Indeed it seems symlink
/etc/alternatives/usplash-artwork.so -> /usr/lib/usplash/usplash-theme-
kubuntu.so, but should it be?)
I don't know what the bootsplash artwork was before the upgrade (I had
it turned off, since it had been buggy with my monitor).
History:
Install from Dapper 6.06 CD. (gnome is default, of course)
Install xubuntu-desktop, then switch to that as my computer's default session.
Soon after Edgy is released, upgrade to it. Since that upgrade was buggy for
xubuntu, I used command-line dist-upgrade stuff, had to install the x server
which seemingly had been removed, and fixed up some package problems later.
2006-12-18: install konqueror (I don't think this is relevant, but it's the
first bit of KDE I installed, including kdebase dependencies)
2007-03-26: install kubuntu-desktop (which included the first time
kubuntu-artwork-usplash was installed).
I tried logging in with the kde session a few times. I don't remember if I set
it to my "default session" before switching back to XFCE permanently.
2007-04-15: upgrade to feisty (beta-testing!) (straightforward update-manager
-d, though I did run a bit low on disk space). See above for session details
(which don't involve KDE/kubuntu at all!). During the upgrade it asked me if I
wanted to switch to kdm and I said no.
2007-04-17: actually try running using the feisty kernel (2.6.20-15-powerpc) (I
keep the kernels I run on a separate partition that I manually update)
Apparently (by aptitude show foo) ubuntu-desktop is not installed now, nor
xubuntu-desktop, but kubuntu-desktop is. Based on /var/log/dpkg.log.*, it
appears that my upgrade to Edgy removed those two meta-packages.
usplash-theme-ubuntu, kubuntu-artwork-usplash, and xubuntu-artwork-usplash are
all installed. (I'm guessing these are all parallel packages, despite the
naming discrepancy.)
Another oddity is that the first time I booted into feisty, I got a
Xubuntu-themed login screen but my default login was GNOME. I guess
that's due to not restarting assuming they're managed differently, but
maybe it would be considered a bug.
During the upgrade, I was watching the logged details. It seems the
initramfs was updated haphazardly, an ungodly wasteful number of times -
but this doesn't seem relevant, other than that the initrd did end up
consistent with /etc/alternatives. I could attach /var/log/dpkg.log or
something if the order packages were upgraded in seems important.
Either: my upgrade to Edgy was sufficiently unsupported, OR the boot
artwork is supposed to be the most recently installed package regardless
of what session the rest of the system uses, OR there's some bug here.
How is the boot screen supposed to distinguish between different flavors
of Ubuntu? Why? I could possibly even boot a whole different distro with
that kernel+initrd if I wanted!
** Affects: Ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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boot splash choice between kubuntu/ubuntu/xubuntu is odd after upgrade to feisty
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/107258
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