bug in antix-installer or isosnapshot – permissions of user folder cannot be set

[Member Xaver]

I use VirtualBox to keep the install-isos of my antiX-versions up to date (Stretch and Sid). Today I have tried to install them on a VirtualBox HD. In both cases the installation process did not show any problems. But in the end I get an error message: the permissions of my home folder cannot be set.

Is this a known problem of minstall or isosnapshot?
A few weeks ago this problem did not occur yet.

[Forum Admin dolphin_oracle]

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the code that controls that message hasn’t changed in a very very long time.

what sort of snapshots are you making? personal or general?

[Member Xaver]

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General snapshots.

My /var/log/apt/history.log starts 2018-04-23
The version I have used were from
2018-04-30 antix-installer:amd64 (0.8.14, 0.8.15)
to
2018-10-19 antix-installer:amd64 (1.0.4.3, 1.0.4.4)

Unfortunately I do not know, when the problem started. I have not reinstalled my VirtualBoxes too often.
Both systems are affected: Sid and Stretch.
If the cause is neither antix-installer nor isosnapshot, could it be VirtualBox?

So far I have used isosnapshot to back up my root-partition. But if installation from the iso does not work, I should better prefer Clonezilla.

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Just checked an antiX-sid iso-snapshot from 2018-10-23 with antix-installer 1.0.4.2
My first try to install in VirtualBox ended in a crash of antix-installer.

So I then opened minstall from the terminal.
This time installation has been successfull.

Now again I have tried to install my latest iso-snapshot with antix-installer 1.0.4.4.
Again: permissions of user folder cannot be set.
Whatever has changed in antix-installer from 1.0.4.2 to 1.0.4.4 seems to cause the problem.

[Forum Admin dolphin_oracle]

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can you run your snapshot live, and check to see if you have a demo group

$ groups

• This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by dolphin_oracle.

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@ dolphin_oracle
Yes, a wrong name of my usergroup was causing the problems.
I had renamed the username of my VirtualBox installations to ‘demo’. But I did not realize, that I had to rename the usergroup too. So usergroup and username were different and isosnapshot could not rename the usergroup to ‘demo’.
I have corrected that and installation works fine now. Thank you for your help.

I beg your pardon. – Fortunately there is no bug in antix-installer 1.0.4.4.

[Forum Admin dolphin_oracle]

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great thanks!

actually, there was a bug in the earlier installer with the home folder creation that wasn’t very obvious but we fixed it a couple of months ago upstream, which I had forgotten until I started checking commit reports. antiX only got the update recently. and that bug fix likely caused your issue.

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