Bug 107669 - Creation of user accounts failed on installation. I cannot log in now as there are no accounts.
Summary: Creation of user accounts failed on installation. I cannot log in now as the...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: firstboot
Version: 9
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Brent Fox
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-10-21 21:09 UTC by Todd Cunningham
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:58 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-12-08 20:05:18 UTC
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Description Todd Cunningham 2003-10-21 21:09:02 UTC 
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Description of problem:
During a first time installation of Linux 9 on a partitioned hard drive, the 
user account creation failed.  The error message came back as a "firstboot" 
error.  After continuing through the installation, I was not able to log in as 
there were no accounts to log in to.  As I cannot access any portion of the 
installed product I am not able to return a component release.

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How reproducible:
Didn't try


Additional info:

I cannot attach the file saved for the bug because it was saved to the Linux 
root created in the install.  I have been forced to use the Windows OS that I 
created as a backup to submit this.
Comment 1 David Lawrence 2003-10-21 21:12:56 UTC 
Could you not login as the 'root' user after seeing the firstboot failure? Every
install has at lease one user of 'root' with whatever password you set for it
during the install process.
Comment 2 Brent Fox 2003-12-08 20:05:18 UTC 
Closing due to lack of information.  Please reopen if you have more
information.
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