Description of problem: /home is not reformatted and existing user is redefined during installation. Create User fails. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. using images/boot.iso from 8-Sep added as optical device to VirtualBox VM 2. Minimal Install plus Standard, reformat root,swap,boot partitions but not home 3. define administrative user with simple password which already exists on /home Actual results: Create User fails for existing user but not administrative user with simple password which does not exist Expected results: 7-Sep and before this would succeed Additional info: All steps identical to this same scenario using yesterday's boot.iso
Please attach the logs from /tmp at the time of the failure to this bug as individual, text/plain attachments.
Created attachment 1072204 [details] backtrace line 22: TypeError: uid should be integer, not str note: this is using images/boot.iso 10-Sep
In the future, please try to provide as much information as possible when filing bugs. There are several log files in /tmp in the installer environment that include information about packaging, storage, and the state of anaconda itself, all of which are vital to understanding the context that led to a particular problem. A traceback with no details is nearly useless. When anaconda crashes, it generates a file in /tmp that includes the traceback, local variables in the crashing frame, and the contents of several log files. There is also a dialog that pops up letting you automatically file a bug and attach all of this information, which is ideal since it includes a means of searching bugzilla to determine whether the issue has already been filed. An issue such as this one. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1260318 ***
Thanks, I will keep your advise in mind in the future. I was unable, several tries, to get the automatic submission to work. I will look into that. I also noticed that the root user password was set incorrectly, even though the "alternate" home user was set correctly. If I can provide any more detail to help with this please let me know
useradd creates the password in /etc/shadow in plain text. passwd fixes that.