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

[AK-47]

What is the output of this command?

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/bin/ls -1 /home

Start it from your snapshot.

[fehlix]

This did not go well... Unfortunately the commands didn't do what you hoped for (see below). When I logged back in as "stefan" I then found myself not in my desktop but back in the original ISO installer desktop. I then started the installer, which went through without error but it did not install my snapshot but rather the original version.

Hmm.., so you removed "something" under /home, and afterwards the installer worked.
What directories do you have under home on the snapshot? Something other then the home directory of the default user?

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ls -al /home

... Opps ... AK-47 already asked...

[SIttner76]

What is the output of this command?

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/bin/ls -1 /home

Start it from your snapshot.

OK, here it is:

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stefan@HP-Linux:~
$ /bin/ls -1 /home
stefan
stefan@HP-Linux:~
$ 

[SIttner76]

This did not go well... Unfortunately the commands didn't do what you hoped for (see below). When I logged back in as "stefan" I then found myself not in my desktop but back in the original ISO installer desktop. I then started the installer, which went through without error but it did not install my snapshot but rather the original version.

Hmm.., so you removed "something" under /home, and afterwards the installer worked.
What directories do you have under home on the snapshot? Something other then the home directory of the default user?

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ls -al /home

... Opps ... AK-47 already asked...

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stefan@HP-Linux:~
$ ls -al /home
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 1 root   root    60 Mar 10 15:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root   root   160 Mar 14 16:15 ..
drwxr-xr-x 1 stefan stefan 260 Mar 14 15:16 stefan
stefan@HP-Linux:~

[dolphin_oracle]

What is the output of this command?

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/bin/ls -1 /home

Start it from your snapshot.

OK, here it is:

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stefan@HP-Linux:~
$ /bin/ls -1 /home
stefan
stefan@HP-Linux:~
$ 

that's running your snapshot live?

[SIttner76]

What is the output of this command?

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/bin/ls -1 /home

Start it from your snapshot.

OK, here it is:

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stefan@HP-Linux:~
$ /bin/ls -1 /home
stefan
stefan@HP-Linux:~
$ 

that's running your snapshot live?

Yes, freshly booted.

[AK-47]

What do you get with these commands? Run the second one immediately after the first with nothing in between the two commands.

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

Run on the live boot.

[SIttner76]

What do you get with these commands? Run the second one immediately after the first with nothing in between the two commands.

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

Run on the live boot.

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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 $?
1
stefan@HP-Linux:~
$ 

[dolphin_oracle]

ok try again, but

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

[SIttner76]

ok try again, but

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

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