On 05/05/2017 04:32 PM, Eric Duncan wrote:
> ...because after waiting nearly two hours to install onto a USB stick, you'll get an error at the very end stating the Python script had an error and installation has been halted.
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> Error message: can't create user. user already exists (something like that)
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> I actually went through three installations on two USB sticks until I dug in to see what the error was.  
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> It would be nice if the installer stated not to use "qubes" as the username when creating a user (better yet, have validation that prevents going forward with that username).  :)  
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That sounds like a bad bug, but one that can be remedied pretty easily.

I've created an issue in QubesOS/qubes-issues for this here:
https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2793

Andrew Morgan