Autoyast doesn't create users

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Hi there. I have a problem with Autoyast installation, and I am hoping that someone can help me. Here i t is:

Autoyast installs system successfully, but it fails to create additional users, and to change the root password. Here’s the autoyast file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE profile>
<profile xmlns="http://www.suse.com/1.0/yast2ns" xmlns:config="http://www.suse.com/1.0/configns">
  <add-on>
    <add_on_products config:type="list">
      <listentry>
        <media_url><![CDATA[http://mirror/opensuse/distribution/13.1/repo/oss/]]></media_url>
        <product>openSUSE</product>
        <product_dir>/</product_dir>
      </listentry>
      <listentry>
        <media_url><![CDATA[http://mirror/opensuse/distribution/13.1/repo/non-oss/]]></media_url>
        <product>openSUSE 13.1 NonOSS Add on</product>
        <product_dir>/</product_dir>
      </listentry>
      <listentry>
        <media_url><![CDATA[http://mirror/opensuse/update/13.1/]]></media_url>
        <product>Update</product>
        <product_dir>/</product_dir>
      </listentry>
      <listentry>
        <media_url><![CDATA[http://mirror/opensuse/update/13.1-non-oss/]]></media_url>
        <product>Update Non-oss</product>
        <product_dir>/</product_dir>
      </listentry>
    </add_on_products>
  </add-on>
  <bootloader config:type="boolean">false</bootloader>
  <deploy_image>
    <image_installation config:type="boolean">false</image_installation>
  </deploy_image>
  <firewall>
    <start_firewall config:type="boolean">false</start_firewall>
  </firewall>
  <general>
    <ask-list config:type="list"/>
    <mode>
      <confirm config:type="boolean">false</confirm>
      <final_halt config:type="boolean">false</final_halt>
      <final_reboot config:type="boolean">true</final_reboot>
      <halt config:type="boolean">false</halt>
      <second_stage config:type="boolean">true</second_stage>
    </mode>
    <proposals config:type="list"/>
    <signature-handling>
      <accept_file_without_checksum config:type="boolean">true</accept_file_without_checksum>
      <accept_non_trusted_gpg_key config:type="boolean">true</accept_non_trusted_gpg_key>
      <accept_unknown_gpg_key config:type="boolean">true</accept_unknown_gpg_key>
      <accept_unsigned_file config:type="boolean">true</accept_unsigned_file>
      <accept_verification_failed config:type="boolean">true</accept_verification_failed>
      <import_gpg_key config:type="boolean">true</import_gpg_key>
    </signature-handling>
    <storage/>
  </general>
  <groups config:type="list"/>
  <keyboard>
    <keymap>english-us</keymap>
  </keyboard>
  <login_settings/>
  <networking>
    <dns>
      <dhcp_hostname config:type="boolean">false</dhcp_hostname>
      <domain>office.sw4i.com</domain>
      <hostname>filip</hostname>
      <resolv_conf_policy>auto</resolv_conf_policy>
      <write_hostname config:type="boolean">false</write_hostname>
    </dns>
    <ipv6 config:type="boolean">true</ipv6>
    <keep_install_network config:type="boolean">false</keep_install_network>
    <managed config:type="boolean">true</managed>
    <routing>
      <ip_forward config:type="boolean">false</ip_forward>
    </routing>
  </networking>
  <partitioning config:type="list">
    <drive>
      <initialize config:type="boolean">true</initialize>
      <partitions config:type="list">
        <partition>
          <create config:type="boolean">true</create>
          <crypt_fs config:type="boolean">false</crypt_fs>
          <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem>
          <filesystem_id config:type="integer">131</filesystem_id>
          <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
          <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs>
          <mountby config:type="symbol">device</mountby>
          <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id>
          <partition_nr config:type="integer">1</partition_nr>
          <pool config:type="boolean">false</pool>
          <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize>
          <size>1G</size>
        </partition>
        <partition>
          <create config:type="boolean">true</create>
          <crypt_fs config:type="boolean">false</crypt_fs>
          <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext4</filesystem>
          <filesystem_id config:type="integer">131</filesystem_id>
          <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
          <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs>
          <mount>/</mount>
          <mountby config:type="symbol">device</mountby>
          <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id>
          <partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr>
          <pool config:type="boolean">false</pool>
          <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize>
          <size>max</size>
        </partition>
      </partitions>
      <type config:type="symbol">CT_DISK</type>
      <use>all</use>
    </drive>
  </partitioning>
  <scripts>
    <init-scripts config:type="list">
      <script>
        <filename>zzz_reboot</filename>
        <source><![CDATA[chkconfig autoyast off
shutdown -r now]]></source>
      </script>
      <script>
        <filename>zzz_reboot</filename>
        <source><![CDATA[chkconfig autoyast off
shutdown -r now]]></source>
      </script>
    </init-scripts>
  </scripts>
  <software>
    <instsource>http://mirror/opensuse/distribution/13.1/repo/oss/</instsource>
    <packages config:type="list">
      <package>htop</package>
      <package>autoyast2-installation</package>
    </packages>
    <patterns config:type="list">
      <pattern>base</pattern>
    </patterns>
  </software>
  <timezone>
    <hwclock>UTC</hwclock>
    <timezone>Europe/Belgrade</timezone>
  </timezone>
  <user_defaults>
    <group>100</group>
    <groups/>
    <home>/home</home>
    <inactive>-1</inactive>
    <no_groups config:type="boolean">true</no_groups>
    <shell>/bin/bash</shell>
    <skel>/etc/skel</skel>
    <umask>022</umask>
  </user_defaults>
  <users config:type="list">
    <user>
      <encrypted config:type="boolean">true</encrypted>
      <fullname>sw4iadmin</fullname>
      <gid>100</gid>
      <home>/home/sw4iadmin</home>
      <password_settings>
        <inact>-1</inact>
        <max>99999</max>
        <min>0</min>
        <warn>7</warn>
      </password_settings>
      <shell>/bin/bash</shell>
      <uid>100</uid>
      <user_password>$6$zP/1GHaWvav5$mBhpzzAgiA30hX4KsmfA/NTvS07Ue22OpW7ijV0Up79rouuhmwhbPWl5FWYkfnGUt1u5r/A1VXtqUJ1Vdo.l1/</user_password>
      <username>sw4iadmin</username>
    </user>
    <user>
      <encrypted config:type="boolean">true</encrypted>
      <fullname>root</fullname>
      <gid>0</gid>
      <home>/root</home>
      <password_settings>
        <inact>-1</inact>
        <max>-1</max>
        <min>-1</min>
        <warn>-1</warn>
      </password_settings>
      <shell>/bin/bash</shell>
      <uid>0</uid>
      <user_password>$6$jaJT8c5eGNsY$vlCXAZRkpHYzc/15wXldvOTgq9iQ.KHwBHE1xXZQweyIq/lkX/toXQTFMgRsbyJYUIZKuh90ZVJDUyikVYf6K1</user_password>
      <username>root</username>
    </user>
  </users>
</profile>
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Hi,

My current task is to setup autodeployment of an 8-node encoding cluster with autoyast on openSuSE 13.1 x64.
Hardware is fully supported and running fine with manual setup from DVD.
With my setup I experience the same problem: Add-on products (like non-oss and online update repos) from opensuse download servers are not added. It worked with openSuSE 11.4 and 12.1 in a similar environment.

I copied my add-on config from the autoyast docu supplied with SLES11.

     <listentry>
      <media_url>http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.1/repo/oss</media_url>
      <product></product>
      <product_dir>/</product_dir>
      <ask_on_error config:type="boolean">false</ask_on_error>
      <name>repo-oss</name> <!-- available since openSUSE 11.1/SLES11 (bnc#433981) -->
     </listentry

It does neither work with CDATA around the media_url nor without.

Funny thing is, that my local NFS packman mirror works fine, packages from there are installed and the repo added to zypper at the resulting installation:

      <listentry>
      <media_url>nfs://10.0.0.70:/opt/install/packman</media_url>
      <product></product>
      <product_dir>/</product_dir>
      <ask_on_error config:type="boolean">false</ask_on_error>
      <name>packman-mirror</name> <!-- available since openSUSE 11.1/SLES11 (bnc#433981) -->
     </listentry>

The machines do have valid ethernet interface configs from DHCP and access to the internet.
Installation runs through, partitions, users everything is in place as configured in the autoyast.xml but all packages from the http repositories are missing.

any ideas are appreciated!

best,
Patrick

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Hi again, it works for me now! :slight_smile:
The solution was simple: during initial setup, the new nodes could not reach the download server due to a router misconfiguration.
My config files snippets are valid as I posted them.
sw4iadmin, maybe your will work if you remove the CDATA around media-url. Or you have trouble connecting to the download server like me.
You can try pinging it from another console (STRG-ALT-F2) during autoyast setup.

best,
Patrick