Normally I would put a backslash character in front of that apostrophe
since it's a special character to bash at least and I suspect several
other shell envioonments. Perhaps try O\'Dell by way of an example. I
suspect mint hasn't been modified at all and that you haven't interacted
so far with the shell environment in mint which may be why you haven't
found this error in that distro yet.
On Thu, 22 Oct 2015, Adrian O'Dell wrote:
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 02:15:10
From: Adrian O'Dell <crimsonm...@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Reporting Bug
Resent-Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 06:33:12 +0000 (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
There appears to be a bug which has Plagued me for years. Oddly I don't have
the bug in Linux Mint. Did they edit this part of the installer?
My name contains an apostrophe, which causes the Debian installer to not
create my user account. Long time ago when I tried to seek help via IRC was
told I must have done something wrong. Two days ago I confirmed through
multiple installs that the apostrophe is the culprit.
This is the only attempt I will make at filing a bug report. Anyone more
familiar with filing a bug report, it would be greatly appreciated if you
would make sure it gets filed properly so it may be resolved.
https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting is an ugly wall of text which
immediately discouraged me from wanting to file a bug report anymore.
Thanks.
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