[jaunty] using 20090420.1 alternate or 20090421.2 dvd (any frontend) image results in pulseaudio being installed by default

Please instruct to purge pulseaudio. We've previously seen examples where a removed (but not purged) pulseaudio has caused problems, solved simply by purging.

Could you please attach /var/log/installer/syslog from a system installed in such a way as to install pulseaudio?

Documented at <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JauntyJackalope/ReleaseNotes#Pulseaudio%20inadvertently%20enabled%20in%20Kubuntu%20when%20installing%20from%20DVD%20or%20upgrading%20with%20apt-get>:

When installing Kubuntu 9.04 from the DVD or alternate CD images, or upgrading to Kubuntu 9.04 from a previous release using apt-get dist-upgrade, the pulseaudio package will be installed in error. This package is not intended to be installed as part of the Kubuntu desktop. Users can remove this package with the command:

 sudo apt-get remove --purge pulseaudio

(marked "fix committed" instead of "fix released" because we still don't understand why this is happening at all, and might want to consider rerolling images to solve this)

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 07:40:21AM -0000, Andreas Wenning wrote:
> Please instruct to purge pulseaudio. We've previously seen examples
> where a removed (but not purged) pulseaudio has caused problems, solved
> simply by purging.

Any such problems would be a serious bug in the pulseaudio package; do you
have references to bug reports of this affecting jaunty?

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Contrast:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/daily-live/20090420.1/jaunty-desktop-amd64.manifest

with:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/daily/20090420.1/jaunty-alternate-amd64.list
or:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/dvd/20090421.2/jaunty-dvd-amd64.manifest
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/dvd/20090421.2/jaunty-dvd-amd64.list

To figure out what caused pulseaudio to be installed on upgrade, please run:
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -o Debug::pkgDepCache::AutoInstall=true

I need the syslog specifically from the alternate CD installation. Sorry for not being clear.

Attaching log file

OK, thanks. This log indicates that pulseaudio is not in fact installed for installations from the alternate CD. In that case I think we're left with Steve's (very plausible) hypothesis for why it's pulled in for DVD installations:

  12:05 <slangasek> cjwatson: regarding pulseaudio being pulled in on Kubuntu DVD, it appears to be part of the kubuntu-dvd-live task via openjdk-6-jre

It's only a Recommends, so in principle ubiquity could decide to remove this. Nevertheless, I'm reluctant to deal with this by way of a ubiquity fix because it's *also* a problem on the live DVD filesystem. We could fix this in livecd-rootfs (apt-get install kubuntu-dvd-live^ pulseaudio-), or we could blacklist pulseaudio in the Kubuntu dvd-live seed, or we could drop the Recommends to a Suggests in openjdk-6-jre. We'll have to look at this in more detail to see which option is best.

Fixed in karmic.