Hi! >>> The second problem I encountered was that neither my user account was created >>> during installation nor was the root password set. This left the system fairly >>> unusable until I used a rescue system to mount my encrypted disk, added a user >>> to /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow (without a password) and subsequently added >>> this user to the sudoers group. In this way I could aquire root on my new >>> system. >>> >> This is confusing; maybe your media was corrupted in some way since I >> don't remember of seeing this report and it is used in every >> installation. Could you try to reproduce it and report back to us? >> >> > > I actually tried twice, though with the same installation media. I > don't have any plans to reinstall in the near future though (at least > not until the multi-arch stuff screws up my system again.. ;) ) so > sorry about that. >
I meet the same problem while installing unstable from debian-503-i386-businesscard.iso today. After solving some grub2 troubles and booting - can't login user at all! Boot into rescue mode - there is no user in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files. Steps to reproduce: 1. Boot from CD debian-503-i386-businesscard.iso 2. Advanced Installation - KDE - Expert mode 3. LVM: / and /home 4. unstable 5. targeted initrd 6. choose hide passwords and root login through sudo 7. can't login after boot Steps to login: 8. boot again from CD in rescue mode 9. enter shell and mount home 10. check there is no user in passwd and shadow 11. adduser 12. reboot and login user I had tried to reproduce the same with stable, max initrd and grub (not grub2) - everything was ok, withot errors. So, the problem is in point 4 or 5. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
