Unable to set root password with clear text using preseed/early_command

Hi, I want to set the root password to a random string. this is the preseed I use: d-i preseed/early_command string \ pw="$(tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 ' Directly setting the password also works: d-i passwd/root-password password r00tme d-i passwd/root-password-again password r00tme >From https://sou

Bug#1005693: Installation of sid failed because of network configuration failure

Hello Holger Possible, i see the error in the syslog: > Feb 15 12:37:56 kernel: [1.153027] Intel(R) Wireless WiFi driver for Linux > Feb 15 12:37:56 kernel: [1.153942] iwlwifi :3b:00.0: firmware: failed > to load iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode (-2) > Feb 15 12:37:56 kernel: [1.154394] fir

Bug#621118: partman-auto-lvm: "error creating group" using a preseed recipe with 2 PV on the same disk

Package: partman-auto-lvm Version: 59ubuntu3 Followup-For: Bug #621118 I've had this problem as well (with the installer for ubuntu bionic). The problem in my case, where I was trying to create a VG for each PV /dev/sda3 and /dev/sda4, was most easily fixed by modifying partman-auto-lvm's lib/aut

Bug#1005818: task-lxde-desktop: libreoffice is used as default pdf reader

Package: task-lxde-desktop Version: 3.68 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: andr...@an3as.eu Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? On a fresh installation of bullseye libreoffice is started when clicking on a pdf file. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or

Re: Unable to set root password with clear text using preseed/early_command

On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 08:08:08PM +0800, Glen Huang wrote: > Hi, > > I want to set the root password to a random string. this is the preseed I use: > > d-i preseed/early_command string \ > pw="$(tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 debconf-set passwd/root-password "$pw"; \ > debconf-set passwd/root-pas

Re: Unable to set root password with clear text using preseed/early_command

Thanks for the tip. I’m not sure if escaping is the issue. I tried directly specifying the password: debconf-set passwd/root-password passwd1234 debconf-set passwd/root-password-again passwd1234 Still got prompted. I tried to debug it with d-i preseed/early_command string \ set -x; \ .

Re: Unable to set root password with clear text using preseed/early_command

Thanks to Cyril Brulebois’s tip that I could use DEBCONF_DEBUG to debug debconf, I found out the seen flag should be set in order for db_input to pick up the value. Case solved, thanks to everyone helped! > On Feb 16, 2022, at 9:52 AM, Glen Huang wrote: > > Thanks for the tip. > > I’m not su

Bug#1005693: Possible solution

Hello Holger Yesterday i had a look in the upstream kernel tree. Can you please also look at the commit: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi?h=next-20220215&id=bea2662e7818e15d7607d17d57912ac984275d94 This commit cont