I have seen this happening once on my iMac DV (400MHz G3 slot-loader). The user account was not created, but I was able to create it manually when booting from the "alternate" CD in "rescue" mode. I could then get a shell while using the installed system as / and subsequently use "adduser" to create a user. I also had to use rescue mode to make sure that account was added to the sudoers file. The same install showed the problem with the root account as described above. I found that this was due to the entry for "root" missing completely from /etc/passwd. Adding it manually resolved this.
Also, I only ran into this when I installed the machine before I had replaced the PRAM battery (i.e. it was forgetting its date, time and settings each time I booted). After I had replaced the battery, reset the NVRAM and reset the hardware clock (actually using hwclock --systohc), a second fresh install of 9.04 from the alternate CD correctly created both user account and "root" entry. -- Jaunty PPC alternate CD fails to create user account https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/378706 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
