minstall problem and a Question

[Adrian]

Then it goes on to the username page - and exiting out at this stage - aborts the whole thing

What do you mean by that, do you just exit the installer? Hit "Close"?

[rs55]

Then it goes on to the username page - and exiting out at this stage - aborts the whole thing

What do you mean by that, do you just exit the installer? Hit "Close"?

Yes. Thats what I have been doing all along - and up to version 19.4 of the installer, it would exit without a fuss. But now - it wont let you out of that last screen.
Does'nt make any sense. I boot from a live USB that has 7GB of stuff, including all kinds of config files and whatnot in the home folder. When I boot the live USB I have to enter my usual username/passwd. I dont want to create a new user on install - I just want to install the live USB exactly as it is.

[Adrian]

OK, so it's user error, you should never NEVER exit the installer, unless you see the "Done" message.

[rs55]

A request - is there someway you can provide a .deb file of the installer version 19.4 ? I would like a copy of that just in case I wind up accidentally upgrading.

[rs55]

OK, so it's user error, you should never NEVER exit the installer, unless you see the "Done" message.

OK - so what do you suggest I enter on that page. It wont accept the username, passswd that i used to log into the live session. Should I create some kind of "temp' user name just to trick the installer? In that case will it create a home folder for this new user? What happens to all the config files etc on my 5GB home directory?

[Adrian]

If you click Next it should not prompt that user information, if it does it's a bug, but we cannot figure out where is the problem if you close the installer and don't provide the info we requested. AK-47 asked you something in the previous post you even quoted the post and you still didn't provide the info. In any case you should not close the installer... if you close the installer before it finishes the work we cannot guarantee anything, even before you should not have done that, if it worked it was only by accident.

[rs55]

minstall.log

If you click Next it should not prompt that user information, if it does it's a bug, but we cannot figure out where is the problem if you close the installer and don't provide the info we requested. AK-47 asked you something in the previous post you even quoted the post and you still didn't provide the info. In any case you should not close the installer... if you close the installer before it finishes the work we cannot guarantee anything, even before you should not have done that, if it worked it was only by accident.

I attached that minstall.log earlier - but here it is again. i wonder what I am doing that causes that prompt for username etc. The snapshot is a "personal" one . What else could it be? Iam choosing all the default options in the installer - am I overlooking some checkbox?

[Adrian]

So... where have you provided this info?

ls -als /home
grep -E '^UID_MIN|^UID_MAX' /etc/login.defs
getent passwd {1000..60000}

Also, like I mentioned that log is useless (not completely, we figured out that you closed the installer before finishing the installation) we need the log if you click Next and input the info required even bogus one if you are presented with User info (it shouldn't do that, but that's what we try to fix/figure out).

[asqwerth]

R55, you should input your original name and password in the text fields to get the error, and hopefully that will be recorded in the logs.

[rs55]

R55, you should input your original name and password in the text fields to get the error, and hopefully that will be recorded in the logs.

Its getting late here - Iam going to call it a night! Will try and get you this info over the next day or so. In the meantime maybe you can try installing a Personal Snapshot - burned on to usb with LUM. And try the installer. This feels like a design issue to me - highly unlikely to be specific to my thinkpad .

And , if it is handy, would love to get a .deb of the installer version 19.4 ( that version works for me !)