Hello all, I came across a strange problem during installation: FAI seems to forget the home directory of the root user in the installation system.
echo $HOME / echo ~ / whoami root grep root /etc/passwd root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash So, according to /etc/passwd the home directory of the root user is /root . But in the running installation system, this is forgotten and defaults to / . This in turn causes major pain, because in the home directory of the root user, I have configuration files e.g. for the package downloads via curl through our company obligatory authenticating WWW-Proxy. If the home dir is wrong, it does not find it's config and fails. I can manually define "export HOME=/root" and then downloading and installing packages works again. Of course only in the current shell. I used to have a workaround by just adding this above definition into /srv/fai/config/hooks/updatebase.OPENSUSE . This was working for some time, but as I am continuing to build and improve my installation system, this is no longer enough. Looks like the home directory gets forgotten again when the install_packages stage read my config file OPENSUSE . Before this point downloading and installing packages work. At this point it fails. Any ideas? Anybody else experienced this? Regards, Frank -- Frank Morawietz
