User not created during 18.04.1 live installation

[Nick Zaccardi]

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.

[Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson)]

If you can reproduce this, could you run cloud-init collect-logs (as root) and attach the resulting tarball to this report?

The user definitely does get created under normal circumstances...

[Nick Zaccardi (nzac)]

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.

Let me know if I can provide any additional information. I will not have access to this machine after today until next week because of my holiday travel in the US.

Best,
Nick

[Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson)]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 at 06:41, Nick Zaccardi <email address hidden>
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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