Popcorn /home/user missing after installation

[archvortex]

At the end of the Popcorn installation, bbqinstaller removed user from /home before cleanup at the end of the installation process so when I rebooted there was no user for the installation. This was easy enough solved by commenting out the three chroot lines after #remove live user in bbqinstaller so a /home/user would be created while running a fresh installation. Was I the only one who experienced this?

[machinebacon]

This is shown at the end of the installation:

You may now reboot into the new system. Type reboot or poweroff. Remember to remove the media before restarting the computer. You can login as root with the password you provided and create normal users with adduser or useradd anytime. Remember to adjust groups with usermod or groupmod if needed. Press Enter to quit

This is planned/wanted behavior.

The user should create a fresh user account, and there should be no user account taken over from the live media. By the way, Arch Linux does the same: you have to create a new user after installation. Only a few live installers offer the "enter your username/enter your password" dialog.

"adduser <youruser>" will create the same setup (from /etc/skel) like seen in the live session, but with your username instead of username "user".

We had to make a decision, these were these options:
- installer creates new user and asks for password, then removes live user
- installer keeps the live user and the password
- installer keeps the live user and asks for password change
- installer keeps the live user and live password and adds a new user and password
- installer creates new user, keeps live user, asks for live user removal
- installer creates new user, keeps live user, asks for live username change and password change
- installer does not create users, only sets root password (!)

We found the last option to be the most logical, most UNIX style, and it also requires the user to read up about basic system administration.

[archvortex]

MB, sorry for making you write all of that explanation but it wouldn't let me login at all after rebooting with my created password or bbq or whatever other password I tried so I couldn't create a new user like previous installs of other BBQ versions. I totally agree with the chosen process which has also to be followed for installing Slackware, etc. as well. I tried re-installing 4 - 5 times and it still wouldn't let me login after reboot. That's why I had a look at the installer (using experience from my days with the AB installer) and did what I did (bad archvortex). That's why I wanted to know if it was only me having problems (user error or something to that effect). I didn't explain my problem well enough in the OP and I'm sorry for that.

[machinebacon]

Let me ask in detail please:

- in the installer, there is the prompt saying "enter your password directly twice, it won't be echoed"
- you enter for example 'test' twice, then finish the installation
- reboot
- log in as user 'root' with password 'test'

These won't work? it is interesting, because we use this method since 2013 in all releases. I check it now...

(by the way, "...so a new user would be created" is not quite correct. The chroot lines remove the live user from the installed session but do not create new users. You still have "root", of course, which should be used to create new users inside an installed session)

[machinebacon]

Sorry to tell you that it must have been a user error.
I went through the installation of Popcorn, entered 'root' as new password, rebooted, logged in as 'root' with password 'root' and it worked.

[GekkoP]

I'll just say that I correctly installed Cream, Bowlful and Haggis following extactly these bacon's instructions:

- in the installer, there is the prompt saying "enter your password directly twice, it won't be echoed"
- you enter for example 'test' twice, then finish the installation
- reboot
- log in as user 'root' with password 'test'

I only added my user after that and that's it.