Installing Snapshot always fails with "failed to set user account password" error [Solved]

[dolphin_oracle]

ok thanks. obviously something screwy with that test then.

now

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/bin/ls -1 /home | grep -Ev '(lost\\+found|demo|snapshot)' 

[SIttner76]

ok thanks. obviously something screwy with that test then.
now

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/bin/ls -1 /home | grep -Ev '(lost\\+found|demo|snapshot)' 

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stefan@HP-Linux:~
$ /bin/ls -1 /home | grep -Ev '(lost\\+found|demo|snapshot)' 
stefan
stefan@HP-Linux:~
$ 

[dolphin_oracle]

ok one more. and thanks!

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/bin/ls -1 /home | grep -Ev '(lost\\+found|demo|snapshot)' | grep -Eq [a-zA-Z0-9]
echo $?

[SIttner76]

ok one more. and thanks!

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/bin/ls -1 /home | grep -Ev '(lost\\+found|demo|snapshot)' | grep -Eq [a-zA-Z0-9]
echo $?

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stefan@HP-Linux:~
$ /bin/ls -1 /home | grep -Ev '(lost\\+found|demo|snapshot)' | grep -Eq [a-zA-Z0-9]
stefan@HP-Linux:~
$ echo $?
1
stefan@HP-Linux:~

[dolphin_oracle]

is bash your shell? zsh requies some quotes around the pattern.

maybe

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/bin/ls -1 /home | grep -Ev '(lost\\+found|demo|snapshot)' | grep -q "[a-zA-Z0-9]"
echo $?

[SIttner76]

is bash your shell?

I guess so. It says "~: bash - Konsole" in the window title.
I tried with quotes:

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stefan@HP-Linux:~
$ /bin/ls -1 /home | grep -Ev '(lost\\+found|demo|snapshot)' | grep -q "[a-zA-Z0-9]"
stefan@HP-Linux:~
$ echo $?
0
stefan@HP-Linux:~

[dolphin_oracle]

this is really weird, but its got us in the right direction!

[dolphin_oracle]

we are going to adjust the installer. I imagine we will have one you can install and test. no need for a new snapshot, you can install the new installer while running live.

[SIttner76]

we are going to adjust the installer. I imagine we will have one you can install and test. no need for a new snapshot, you can install the new installer while running live.

Great, thank you all for your help and support. I'll be happy to help testing, just let me know what to do when you are ready.

[AK-47]

we are going to adjust the installer. I imagine we will have one you can install and test. no need for a new snapshot, you can install the new installer while running live.

Great, thank you all for your help and support. I'll be happy to help testing, just let me know what to do when you are ready.

You're welcome. One last thing: can we confirm that this works:

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/usr/bin/ls -1 /home | grep -Ev '^(lost\\+found|demo|snapshot)$' | grep -q '[a-zA-Z0-9]'
echo $?

Note single quotes instead of double quotes.