[Bug 1803904] Re: User not created during 18.04.1 live installation

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 at 06:41, Nick Zaccardi <1803904 at bugs.launchpad.net>
wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>
> I am now noticing that the installer is indeed throw an error. I am not
> sure if that was happening previously, I certainly didn't notice it in
> any case. The attached log is from /var/log/curtin/install.log, will
> that be helpful? cloud-init collect-logs says that the log file doesn't
> exist.
>

Ah that would explain things, I would not expect the user to be created on
first boot if the install fails. In general of course, one wouldn't expect
booting into the installed system if the install fails to work, so I guess
you got a bit lucky here? :)

FWIW, it looks like you're hitting
https://bugs.launchpad.net/subiquity/+bug/1767584. The 18.04.2 version of
the installer due in February should include the fix for this.

Cheers,
mwh

>
>

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Title:
  User not created during 18.04.1 live installation

Status in subiquity package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  During installation of a new 18.04.1 (ubuntu-18.04.1-live-server-
  amd64.iso) the install would complete successfully, machine would
  reboot and I would not be able to login. After dropping into a root
  shell in recovery mode and looking at /etc/passwd, the user was not
  there.

  I also noticed that the host name was not being properly set to the
  assigned value during the install. Instead it was
  "localhost.localdomain".

  Moving to the alternate installer (ubuntu-18.04.1-server-amd64.iso)
  did not have this issue.

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