mdaffin/arch-pkgs

Error when setting passwords in installer/install-arch

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verdantran commented

Running into the following error when running the script:

*** stack smashing detected ***: <unknown> terminated
bash: line 111: 11220 Done                             echo "$user:"password"
        line 11221 Aborted                             (core dymped) | chpasswd --root /mnt
bash: Error on line 111: chpasswd --root /mnt

Couldn't figure out why it was happening, did a quick google but couldn't find anything, any ideas on why this could be dying?

kontax commented

I actually think that may be an issue with chpasswd - it happened to me until I used the latest Arch iso which seemed to fix it.

mdaffin commented

Sorry for the late reply. It looks like a bug in chpasswd but I have been unable to replicate this issue locally.

What version of the ISO did you encounter this with? The last version I tried with was archlinux-2019.08.01-x86_64.iso

I did find a few reports online about it. This one seems to suggest chrooting rather than using the --root option might help. This also suggests that might work.

If you still have the issue try this instead:

echo "${Username}:${Password}" | arch-chroot /mnt chpasswd
verdantran commented

Tried this with a VM using the latest image and it seemed to work fine. I was using an older version when this issue was coming up. Sorry it took me so long to get back!

mdaffin commented

No worries, glad it is working now and thanks for updating the issue.