This isn't a critical bug, but the first entry of the root passwd during the install only accepts one character (E420R, 64sparc). After the install is complete and the system rebooted, passwd works as expected. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install as per the install webpage up to editing /etc/fstab 2. enter "passwd" 3. enter one character - at this point, passwd responds that the entry is too short, and starts again. After doing this twice, the single-char passwd is recorded Actual Results: Single character initial root password Expected Results: Normal password entry Using a PFU (Happy Hacker) keyboard, but this is probably unrelated since the keyboard is in sparc mode and works on everything else.
Can you tell us which version of the livecd/stages you were using? Thanks.
Experiencing the same problem here. Using a Sun keyboard. passwd works perfectly after rebooting. Using LiveCD 1.4_rc4
I'm using the gentoo-sparc64-1.4_rc5.iso.bz2 live disk and stage3.
Are any/all of you using screen when you do your install?
screen isn't installed at this point.
Try going outside of the chroot and chrooting again, that usually fixes it. It's not a solution, but until we find exactly what's going on it's a valid workaround.
Is this still an issue? Considering 2005.0 has been released.
Yeah, it still happens in 2005.0 media sometimes.
Any luck w/ 2006.0, perhaps? :=)
Just did a 2006.0 based install on an Ultra 1 and passwd is working as it should. Resolving as WORKSFORME for now. If anyone has this problem again, feel free to re-open.
