Ubuntu
ubiquity package

Wily installer uses wrong seed location for systemd-random-seed.service

Bug #1523199 reported by Sarah Newman
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Critical
Unassigned
Declined for Wily by Marc Deslauriers

Bug Description

I used the pxe installer + preseed to do a non-interactive install of ubuntu wily. After finishing the install, there was a random seed /var/lib/urandom/random-seed but there was no file /var/lib/systemd/random-seed. After first boot and then after rebooting again, the timestamp on /var/lib/urandom/random-seed was not updated from the initial time. /var/lib/systemd/random-seed had its timestamp updated, showing that /var/lib/systemd/random-seed was being used and /var/lib/urandom/random-seed was not.

Tags: wily

Related branches

lp:~mdeslaur/ubiquity/fix-random-seed
Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre: Approve
Dimitri John Ledkov: Needs Information
Diff: 36 lines (+9/-2)
2 files modified
debian/changelog (+7/-0)
scripts/plugininstall.py (+2/-2)
lp:ubiquity
Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)
information type: Private Security → Public Security
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Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur) wrote :

This is being done in save_random_seed() in scripts/plugininstall.py in ubiquity.

affects: debian-installer (Ubuntu) → ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Critical
Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur) wrote :

https://code.launchpad.net/~mdeslaur/ubiquity/fix-random-seed/+merge/280018

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.21.47

---------------
ubiquity (2.21.47) xenial; urgency=medium

  [ Marc Deslauriers ]
  * scripts/plugininstall.py: Write initial random seed to systemd
    location (LP: #1523199)

  [ Jonathan Riddell ]
  * kde_ui.py: strip any quotes from the lsb-release values
  * Allow for alternate logos

  [ Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre ]
  * ubi-prepare: when non-free is disabled, drop the foss_disclaimer_extra
    widget, and make the whole nonfree_vbox invisible (third-party drivers and
    such are non-free, and disabling Secure Boot is unnecessary if you don't
    install any non-free drivers). (LP: #1549816)

 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <email address hidden> Thu, 25 Feb 2016 14:41:41 -0500

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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