Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] VL6.0-SOHO-A1.9.21

[Newtor <gen...@gm...>]

Hello,

I'm trying to recreate the scenario for setting root's password during
installation to see if I can log any further information. So far all I've been
able to determine is that a 'segmentation fault' is occurring when trying to set
root's password; I'll make the assumption that the same is true when setting user
account passwords as well.

If I manually chroot to the target and issue 'passwdx root root' I receive:
   spawn passwd root
   Segmentation fault

The installer looks to be passing a valid and correct command to the shell. The
'passwdx' script looks to be correct in regards to code. 'expect' is installed and
seems to be functioning correctly. 'autopasswd' also ends in a segmentation fault.
Is it possible that the 1.21 ISO was simply compiled with some kind of a
corruption that causes this issue (either in the ISO itself or the expect
interpreter)?

I have not had a problem with user account creation; simply password setting. I
assume that the user account creation step involves the same password setting
syntax (and interpreter; expect), which would lead me to believe the problem lies
somewhere in there. By chance, did 'expect' change from 1.17 to 1.21?

The md5 of expect installed on my system from 1.21 is:
e4a981a3b18bc7f53b817ce1d1639b61 /usr/bin/expect

It would be interesting to see if the same is true for M0E since he does not seem
to be experiencing this same issue.

On the bright side, 'chpasswd' works fine :D

Cheers, newt

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Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 10:11:32 PM, you wrote:

ML> Ok guys, I will check the /etc/shadow thing. But im still curious why
ML> I dont get this problem.

ML> @ uelsk8s
ML> Can you check my shell code to make sure the procedure for creating
ML> the new account is correct? The code is here
ML> http://vlcore.vectorlinux.com/trac/vinstall/browser/branches/speedy/MdlMain.module#L668

ML> Will do some more debugging tomorrow