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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Hello all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">I came across a strange problem during installation: FAI seems to forget the home directory of the root user in the installation system.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">echo $HOME<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">echo ~<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">whoami<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">root<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">grep root /etc/passwd<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">So, according to
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">/etc/passwd
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">the home directory of the root user is
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">/root</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> . But in the running installation system, this is forgotten and defaults to
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">/</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">I can manually define “</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">export HOME=/root</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">”
and then downloading and installing packages works again. Of course only in the current shell.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">I used to have a workaround by just adding this above definition into
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console""> /srv/fai/config/hooks/updatebase.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">OPENSUSE .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">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 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">install_packages</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> stage read my config file
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">OPENSUSE</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> . Before this point downloading and installing packages work. At this point it fails.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Any ideas? Anybody else experienced this?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Frank<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">--
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Frank Morawietz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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