Hello and thank you for your bug report. The command that failed is:
'useradd', 'root', '--comment', 'ubuntu', '--shell', '/bin/bash', '-- groups', 'adm,cdrom,dip,lpadmin,plugdev,sudo,users', '--create-home' The call to useradd was added to 24.04.4 when we backported the following: > Earlier user creation > > Previously, the user account was only created the first time the newly > installed system was started. > This made it harder to write automated post-installation scripts, since the > user account was not > available at the point when they executed (typically as part of > late-commands). Now, the user account > is created earlier in the installation, so it is available for automated > post-installation scripts. > > This also addresses some crashes when installing Ubuntu unattended on > specific versions of VirtualBox. and sadly, that fails in your scenario because the root user already exists on the system (it is automatically created). It isn't clear to me if allowing people to use `root` as the username should be considered a bug or a feature. For now, I'd recommend using another username (for instance ubuntu) and using sudo since it's configured to be password-less. Thanks, Olivier -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2142391 Title: Attempting to create a user named root fails on 24.04.4 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/subiquity/+bug/2142391/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
