[Bug 1725099] Re: “Vanilla GNOME desktop” task doesn't work

[Pietro Gagliardi (andlabs/pietro10)]

Affects me with both the i386 and x86_64 netinstall images of 18.04 —
the installation process completes unusually quickly, and upon
rebooting, I get dropped to a terminal login. startx is not found.

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Title:
  “Vanilla GNOME desktop” task doesn't work

Status in tasksel package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  $ lsb_release -rd
  Description:    Ubuntu 17.10
  Release:        17.10

  $ apt-cache policy tasksel (and tasksel-data)
    Installed: 3.34ubuntu9
    Candidate: 3.34ubuntu9

  Selecting the "Vanilla GNOME desktop" task during installation using
  Artful's mini.iso results in only about 80 additional packages being
  installed, compared to "Ubuntu desktop"'s 1000+. This results in
  little, if anything, more than a basic minimal install.

  Attempting to install it via tasksel post-install makes no difference.

  Running "tasksel --task-packages ubuntu-desktop" returns "ubuntu-
  desktop^", while running "tasksel --task-packages vanilla-gnome-
  desktop" returns nothing at all.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
  Package: tasksel-data 3.34ubuntu9
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4
  Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Oct 19 22:12:51 2017
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=linux
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: tasksel
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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