| lawnchair | im trying to install ubuntu (12 or 13) and the installer crashes the same way for both versions: "console-setup-linux breaks console-setup" - has anyone ever seen this before? | 10:04 |
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| cjwatson | 12 and 13 aren't versions of Ubuntu - your choices are 12.04, 12.10, 13.04, 13.10 | 10:06 |
| cjwatson | Exactly which image (URL, preferably) are you installing? Could I see the full log of the failure? | 10:06 |
| lawnchair | ubuntu-12.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso ubuntu-13.04-desktop-amd64.iso | 10:11 |
| lawnchair | i find it odd they both crash the same way | 10:11 |
| lawnchair | i dont have the full log of the failure but i submitted a crash report | 10:11 |
| lawnchair | i thought it might be a common failure, i guess not | 10:11 |
| lawnchair | ill go through the installer again and let it crash... then ill grab the log | 10:13 |
| cjwatson | console-setup-linux is a Debian thing; we've never merged it into Ubuntu | 10:16 |
| cjwatson | (It's in the queue, just a fair amount of effort and not high-priority) | 10:16 |
| cjwatson | So it's perplexing that you would be seeing it even mentioned at all in an Ubuntu installation | 10:16 |
| cjwatson | Are you doing anything at all unusual with the installer? | 10:16 |
| cjwatson | For example, writing the image to a USB stick using some special tool? | 10:17 |
| lawnchair | yep | 10:18 |
| lawnchair | i'm writing it to a usb stick w/ unetbootin | 10:18 |
| lawnchair | so yeah, that's def. a common factor | 10:19 |
| lawnchair | makes sense for that to be the issue | 10:19 |
| cjwatson | Right. I blame unetbootin. You can just write Ubuntu images to USB sticks with dd | 10:20 |
| lawnchair | ok cool. i'll do that. | 10:20 |
| cjwatson | It doesn't need a special tool unless you want extra persistent storage on the USB stick, or a pretty UI | 10:20 |
| lawnchair | nope, i don't need anything crazy | 10:20 |
| lawnchair | cool, thanks for the direction | 10:20 |
| lawnchair | much appreciated | 10:21 |
| cjwatson | The amount of odd stuff unetbootin apparently does is depressing, though :( | 10:21 |
| cjwatson | I wish we had more time to fix up usb-creator so that people wouldn't feel they needed it ... | 10:21 |
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| jkitchen | question: I need to create a system user during preseed prior to installing a package (to prevent the package from just willy-nilly adding its user with whatever uid it decides). is this possible? | 23:48 |
| jkitchen | seems the d-i passwd/user-uid thing might be the way to go, but that's only one user, what if I need to make, say more than one? | 23:49 |
| jkitchen | the puppet package installs a user. I need that user to *always* be the same uid, period. my preseed script installs puppet. therefore I need to have that uid exist during my preseed | 23:50 |
| cjwatson | I would be inclined to write a preseed/early_command script that writes out an executable script in /usr/lib/post-base-installer.d/; that script can then call "in-target adduser --system --uid FIXED USERNAME" or whatever it would be | 23:52 |
| cjwatson | I am not aware of any specific facility for this (and passwd/user-uid isn't it, even for one system user), but the general facilities should work | 23:53 |
| jkitchen | I actually just came up with a really horrible way to do it which should just work: create a package which does nothing but create the required user. | 23:54 |
| jkitchen | and install that prior to installing puppet | 23:54 |
| cjwatson | You can do that. I would prefer the post-base-installer approach myself. | 23:55 |
| jkitchen | yea | 23:55 |
| jkitchen | can I have more than one preseed/early_command? | 23:55 |
| cjwatson | Or, indeed, if you're installing puppet in preseed/late_command rather than pkgsel/include or whatever then you can just create the user first. | 23:56 |
| jkitchen | also, since I can't seem to find the thing, where are the docs specifically for ubuntu installer? (the preseed file itself specifically would be great) | 23:56 |
| jkitchen | I've been referring to d-i.alioth.debian.org, but I imagine there are some differences | 23:56 |
| jkitchen | and "ubuntu installer" on google gives me all sorts of completely irrelevant pages heh | 23:56 |
| cjwatson | No. Think of preseeding as setting keys in a database, not as a script. But of course preseed/early_command can contain more than one command. | 23:56 |
| cjwatson | https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/installation-guide/i386/appendix-preseed.html | 23:57 |
| jkitchen | cjwatson: <3 | 23:57 |
| jkitchen | I've been looking for that page for days. | 23:57 |
| jkitchen | and yea, I figured not with regard to multiple early_commands, but had to check (in case there was like a preseed/early_command/0, 1, 2, etc) | 23:58 |
| cjwatson | Nope. But you can wget a script, chmod +x it, and execute it, if that's easier to manage | 23:58 |
| jkitchen | not a bad idea. we shall see :) | 23:59 |
| jkitchen | does that page you linked me to cover the available hooks (like the post-base-installer.d dir you mentioned) as well? | 23:59 |
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