Public bug reported:
This occurred during an installation of Kubuntu 7.10 from the
Alternative CD.
I suspect the following happened.
I did manual partitioning. I 'forgot' to erase all data on the
partition on which the install was to take place. I think this had two
consequences.
First, the Debian installer decided not to ask me for a user id as it
found some were already defined on the partition to be installed on.
Second, the install failed: "debootstrap exit with return value 1". I
suspect because it ran out of space on the partition.
I back tracked through the Debian installer menu to the partitioner and
deleted the contents of the partition and this time the install was
successful.
However, again I wasn't asked for a user id (which I noticed and thought
odd at the time). When Kubuntu came to the login screen, the section
with user avatars was empty. With no user id to log in with the
installation was pretty much useless.
I did boot in rescue mode and tried creating a user id by hand. Sure, I
could log in but despite my changing /etc/groups as per the FAQ, the
user id didn't have administrator rights, so the installation was still
pretty much useless.
I installed again and this time made sure I deleted all the data in the
partition before leaving the partitioner. That bit is OK now.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Gutsy Install Does Not Ask for User Id
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/178494
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