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[Eliah Kagan <degeneracypressure@xxxxxxxxx>]

With today's daily-live (20110617, with ubiquity 2.7.9), this bug is
revealed to be even more interesting. In summary, it appears that this
occurs when ubiquity-dm has not run.

Unlike previous daily-lives for a while, 20110617 has a ubiquity-dm
(graphical Try/Install and language selector menu screen) that works on
my machines. When I allow ubiquity-dm to come up, and I press 2 or Enter
on the ubiquity-dm screen, the X server is not terminated. When I click
Try Ubuntu, I get a lightdm login screen (like I got on previous daily-
lives without working ubiquity-dm), where I can also press 2 and Enter
without problems. And after I log in, 2 and Enter continue to work
properly in the ensuing login session.

However, if instead of allowing ubiquity-dm to come up, I press Spacebar
when the keyboard and person icons appear at the bottom of the screen
during boot, and select "Try Ubuntu without installing" in the resulting
text-based boot menu, it boots directly to the lightdm login screen (as
expected), and the 2 and Enter keys do cause the X server to terminate.
This happens when they are pressed at the lightdm login screen, and also
in a login session started from that login screen.

I have tested the above on both the virtual and physical machines.
Testing in login sessions was done in just unity-2d on the VM, and in
both unity-2d and 3D Unity on the Inspiron E1505, and in each case with
both the alphanumeric 2 key and the alphanumeric Enter key (since I was
already testing numerous permutations, I forewent testing with the
numeric keypad's Enter key).

I'm not sure how specific, if at all, this behavior is to the new daily-
live. If ubiquity-dm worked on previous Oneiric live CD's, I'd expect
them to have that same behavior. (Does ubiquity-dm work for some people
on previous, but recent, daily-lives?)

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  pressing 2 or Enter terminates X server on live CD

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