shadow is indeed a reserved username as I found in the ubiquity-1.6.8/d-i/source/user-setup/reserved-usernames file - so that is probably the cause of the bug. However, I would have expected ubiquity to raise an error.
** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium -- chpasswd: line 1: unknown user shadow (was ubiquity & python installer failure) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160822 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
