Bug 350793

Summary: yast2 live-installer puts icon on desktop on every log in :-(
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0 Reporter: Casual J. Programmer <casualprogrammer>
Component: YaST2Assignee: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: captain.magnus
Version: Beta 2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86   
OS: openSUSE 11.0   
Whiteboard:
Found By: Beta-Customer Services Priority:
Business Priority: Blocker: ---
Marketing QA Status: --- IT Deployment: ---
Attachments: /var/log/*

Description Casual J. Programmer 2007-12-27 10:05:25 UTC
While yast2 live-installer is probably a nice feature it becomes somewhat of a nuisance by insisting to put an icon on the desktop on every log in.

It doesn't even have the cleverness to check whether the version it's going to install is already present ( which it is in my case ). But even if this is not the case it should notice, that the icon had been removed on purpose and refrain from putting it up again.

I suggest changing the behavior of live-installer accordingly.


Notebook: Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Si 1520
Graphics: Fujitsu Siemens Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express
Monitor:  QUANTADISPLAY LCD Monitor 1280x800@60Hz
Wireless: Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
Sound:    82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller
Desktop:  gnome2-SuSE-10.3-133
YaST GUI: yast2-qt-2.16.12-3
OS:       openSUSE 11.0 (i586) Alpha0 VERSION = 11.0
Kernel:   2.6.24-rc6-2-default

rpm -qa | grep live-installer

yast2-live-installer-2.16.1-14
Comment 1 Casual J. Programmer 2007-12-27 11:38:13 UTC
The icon isn't even removed by uninstalling yast2-live-installer, but has to be deleted manually a last time.
Comment 2 Stephan Binner 2007-12-29 07:53:19 UTC
The way it works is that the desktop initialization script of GNOME and KDE packages check if the yast2-live-installer package exists and then put the icon on the desktop. A Live-CD installation itself removes the yast2-live-installer package.

So the only bug, if any, is why do you have (still) yast2-live-installer package installed? How did you install your system/this package?
Comment 3 Stephan Binner 2008-01-27 16:51:21 UTC
No response.
Comment 4 Casual J. Programmer 2008-01-28 09:25:04 UTC
Hmm... That's the easy way out.

Actually, if you are so impatient, maybe you can have somebody check Bug 345450, which I filed 2007-12-02 09:22 and it shows no activity to date.

Back to the installer: I don't really recall how I got infected. I vaguely believe I tried out the GNOME Live CD and had that in the tray while booting. Since I removed all traces of the yast2-live-installer I live in peace.

Also I did not file this as Bug, but rather as Enhancement, as you may notice if you look under Severity:

Comment 5 Jiri Srain 2008-01-30 12:46:33 UTC
I guess you are talking about this icon in the installed system (running from the disk), right?

The package itself should be removed at the end of the installation, does it still exist in your system? If so, could you attach the logs from the installation to find out what was wrong?
Comment 6 Casual J. Programmer 2008-01-31 08:31:11 UTC
Somehow I got infected with live-installer during playing with the live cd from http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/iso/cd/openSUSE-10.3-GM-GNOME-Live-i386.iso

When the CD is booted it shows the install icon on the desktop. Somehow I managed to get this into my hard disk based openSuSE installation. Probably tried to use it to recover from a broken system.

While the package was there it would force the icon on the desktop every boot.

As this seems to be a very unlikely case for other users ( the live-installer package is not even part of the repository ) you may close it as INVALID, as I lived under the assumption this was some kind of regular function when I reported it.

Comment 7 Jiri Srain 2008-02-01 15:57:24 UTC
OK, doing as you suggest, since this scenario is really kind of weird.

Anyway, if this problem occurres after regular live installation, please, reopen and provide info from my last comment.
Comment 8 Casual J. Programmer 2008-05-06 04:22:00 UTC
Actually I now have it again: After installing from the Beta2 live cd and deleting the icon from my desktop, it is replaced with every login.

Attaching logs from installation.
Comment 9 Casual J. Programmer 2008-05-06 04:35:48 UTC
Created attachment 212512 [details]
/var/log/*
Comment 10 Casual J. Programmer 2008-05-06 04:38:07 UTC
Well, after installing from Beta2 live CD it's back. Deleting the icon for good is impossible, as it is put back on the desktop with every login. Attaching /var/log/* for your perusal.
Comment 11 Magnus Boman 2008-05-06 04:40:03 UTC
See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=385829
Comment 12 Casual J. Programmer 2008-05-06 04:42:53 UTC
This might be a side effect of Bug 310543