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Bug#388003: marked as done (Incorrect behavior when changing from sudo to non-sudo setup)

Your message dated Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:02:09 +0000
with message-id <E1GpmUL-0002Rx-F9@ries.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#388003: fixed in user-setup 1.8
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.

This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.

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(administrator, Debian Bugs database)
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Package: installation-reports

Boot method: NetInstall CD.
Image version: etch beta 3
Date: 9/16/2006 9:10PM

Machine: Dell Dimension v4100
Processor: PIII 1GHz
Memory: 512MB
Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred>

Output of lspci and lspci -n:

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot worked:    [O]
Configure network HW:   [O]
Config network:         [O]
Detect CD:              [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives:     [O]
Partition hard drives:  [E]
Create file systems:    [O]
Mount partitions:       [O]
Install base system:    [ ] in progress
Install boot loader:    [ ]
Reboot:                 [ ]

Comments/Problems:

I discovered on Friday afternoon that there was an IRC bot in /var/tmp 
on my Debian sid system, meaning I had been hacked somehow. I 
immediately set about reinstalling.

In my first attempt Friday afternoon, I decided to try some 
possibilities in the partitioner using LVM. I gave up fast, because I 
couldn't figure out how to resize the LVM partitions from the defaults 
the system gave me. I tried to use the guided partitioner to do a 
default partitioning scheme *without* LVM, but even then the LVM 
partitions continued to show up in the partitioner. I aborted at the 
installation (without ever confirming that anything should be written to 
disk), and found that the grub instance from the previous installation 
could no longer make it even to the menu.
IOW, the paritioner's LVM stuff is writing something to disk before 
asking confirmation. I gave up the installation becuase I didn't have 
enough time to finish. That was friday.

I started a new install Saturday night. The partitioner worked fine (I 
didn't try LVM this time), and didn't present any trace of LVM 
partitions. I encountered two other bugs in the installation: I was 
installing using a preseed file, (but not preseeding the actual 
installer, just the debconf for packages to be installed on the system) 
and somehow that causes the installer to return to the main menu after 
each step to ask you to select the next step. The other bug is at the 
point of creating users. It asked me whether I wanted to configure the 
root on that system for sudo. I answered yes, it complained about a 
blank password, and then asked me to enter "the password for the new 
user" without ever asking me a username, or telling me that I was really 
entering a root password. I tried that step again, this time without 
sudo, and it asked me for "a password for the new user" (who I assume 
must be root), but never asked me to create a new user account for a 
normal user.

I'm now waiting for the installer to download and install packages, and 
hopefully I'll be able to finish the installation before 11:00pm (so 
that I can tell it to download a *much larger* collection of packages 
overnight)

I'll follow up to this bug report with any problems in the rest of the 
install (and also the missing fields in the above form).

-- 
Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/

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Source: user-setup
Source-Version: 1.8

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
user-setup, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

user-setup-udeb_1.8_all.udeb
  to pool/main/u/user-setup/user-setup-udeb_1.8_all.udeb
user-setup_1.8.dsc
  to pool/main/u/user-setup/user-setup_1.8.dsc
user-setup_1.8.tar.gz
  to pool/main/u/user-setup/user-setup_1.8.tar.gz
user-setup_1.8_all.deb
  to pool/main/u/user-setup/user-setup_1.8_all.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 388003@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> (supplier of updated user-setup package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Format: 1.7
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:38:33 +0100
Source: user-setup
Binary: user-setup user-setup-udeb
Architecture: source all
Version: 1.8
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org>
Description: 
 user-setup - Set up initial user and password
 user-setup-udeb - Set up users and passwords (udeb)
Closes: 388003 400766
Changes: 
 user-setup (1.8) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ Joey Hess ]
   * Fix backing up after having chosen to not enable root logins, and changing
     it to enable root logins. Since the crypted password was set to a locked
     password in the first pass, the second pass failed to ask for a root
     password. Closes: #400766, #388003.
 .
   [ Frans Pop ]
   * Add myself to uploaders.
 .
   [ Updated translations ]
   * Bulgarian (bg.po) by Damyan Ivanov
   * Bosnian (bs.po) by Safir Secerovic
   * Catalan (ca.po) by Jordi Mallach
   * Esperanto (eo.po) by Serge Leblanc
   * Spanish (es.po) by Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
   * Georgian (ka.po) by Aiet Kolkhi
   * Kurdish (ku.po) by Rêzan Tovjîn
   * Norwegian Bokmål (nb.po) by Bjørn Steensrud
   * Norwegian Nynorsk (nn.po) by HÃ¥vard Korsvoll
   * Panjabi (pa.po) by A S Alam
   * Slovenian (sl.po) by Matej KovaÄ?iÄ?
   * Swedish (sv.po) by Daniel Nylander
Files: 
 9042fd9159085f2c5087e38500b95d8b 753 debian-installer extra user-setup_1.8.dsc
 51af8ad57066913a88ba0ce2cb7319b5 113524 debian-installer extra user-setup_1.8.tar.gz
 8d8966e052df34ea2fa96efe2e21c711 109180 debian-installer standard user-setup-udeb_1.8_all.udeb
 39d430d60f950f19b12d6988340d67ac 114586 admin extra user-setup_1.8_all.deb
Package-Type: udeb

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