Bug#558795: live-helper: problems at boot with X

[Luis Fernando Llana Diaz <luis@antares.sip.ucm.es>]

Package: live-helper
Version: 1.0.6-2
Severity: normal

Hello,
  I have built some images using the live-helper utilities and all of
them fail. I have used both the lenny and sqeeze versions. I have built the
images in another computer and they work. So there must be some
incompatiblity in this computer.
  The problem is that when the X system starts a dialog
appears. I cannot read the dialog says becase only squares
(instead of letters) appear, as if the fonts were broken. I press
ctrl+alt+f1, I can see the command line but as the ordinay user (not
 root) but most commands seem to be broken. I have tried to become
  root with no success:
- with su: the system asks for a password
- with sudo: 
    sudo -s
    command not found
    
    /usr/bin/sudo -s
    Permission denied
    

I can see the /var/log/Xorg.0.log but I cannot see anything wrong
It the file /home/user/.xsession-errors some errors appears, simthing
like (I cannot copy and paste):

/etc/profile: line 4: id: command not fount
/etc/profile: line 4: [: : integer expression expected
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Executing default failed, will try to run x-terminal-emulator
/etc/gdm/Xsession: line 205: exec: x-terminal-emulator: not found


Luis.


-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (400, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages live-helper depends on:
ii  cdebootstrap                0.5.4        Bootstrap a Debian system
ii  debootstrap                 1.0.10lenny1 Bootstrap a basic Debian system

Versions of packages live-helper recommends:
ii  gettext-base                  0.17-4     GNU Internationalization utilities

Versions of packages live-helper suggests:
ii  dosfstools     3.0.1-1                   utilities for making and checking 
ii  fakeroot       1.11                      Gives a fake root environment
ii  genisoimage    9:1.1.9-1                 Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem
ii  grub           0.97-47lenny2             GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy v
pn  memtest86+ | m <none>                    (no description available)
ii  mtools         3.9.11-1                  Tools for manipulating MSDOS files
ii  parted         1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-11.1 The GNU Parted disk partition resi
pn  squashfs-tools <none>                    (no description available)
ii  sudo           1.6.9p17-2                Provide limited super user privile
ii  syslinux       2:3.71+dfsg-5             utilities for the syslinux bootloa
ii  uuid-runtime   1.41.3-1                  universally unique id library
pn  win32-loader   <none>                    (no description available)

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