On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 9:27 AM, Kamil Paral <kpa...@redhat.com> wrote:
So if I read correctly, on the first boot the installed system will
have no user account and no root password.
Yup.
That might be very inconvenient for QA. If anything goes wrong during
the first boot (and it often does during development), we need to be
able to log in on TTY2+. Without the ability to create an account
beforehand, that's not possible. Rebooting into runlevel 1 is also
not possible without root password (it's required by systemd).
OK, I see the problem.
On the one hand, systemd needs fixed, as disabled root account is
already a popular pattern on the largest Linux distro out there. This
is an issue for rescue prompts too. But it's true that doesn't help the
case where there is no user account at all.
One can reboot into Live environment and mount the disks, but that's
tedious, and most importantly, it requires a reboot, so we lose the
information about the running system (e.g. which process is stuck in
a loop). Also, I believe OpenQA uses pre-created root account in
anaconda to switch to tty2 and upload any error logs in case of any
troubles, in a fully automated way. So it's not just manual testing
affected.
Thoughts on how to resolve that? It seems we need at least the root
password option kept.
My suggestion is some sort of debug option for Anaconda that would
allow QA to set a root password when needed to investigate something
going wrong, or for OpenQA. It could even allow visiting arbitrary
Anaconda spokes. That's already possible if you edit
/etc/sysconfig/anaconda before running anaconda, which is admittedly
one more annoying step that you'd have to follow before starting
Anaconda in order to debug the problem, but it works. OpenQA could also
do that, though that's not superb as then OpenQA is testing its own
special configuration.
Michael
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