So, this turned out to be a bit of both casper and ubiquity. I've fixed a few minor bugs in casper which had to be dealt with, but the real structural fix was in ubiquity.
casper (1.66) edgy; urgency=low * Fix use of db_get in ubiquity accessibility hook. * Use sudo instead of su to get to the live session user from the initramfs or to the newly-installed user from ubiquity. su's argument handling has changed so that the previous code no longer worked, and su was never all that good for arguments containing spaces anyway. -- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 4 Sep 2006 15:46:55 +0100 ** Also affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu) Importance: Untriaged Status: Unconfirmed ** Changed in: casper (Ubuntu) Assignee: Tollef Fog Heen => Colin Watson Status: Unconfirmed => Fix Released -- Accessibility options are not preserved on installs https://launchpad.net/bugs/50319 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs