Advisory: Ultramarine 41 and VMware

Taidan may not launch properly on VMware Workstation and Fusion virtual machines, preventing user creation, we are unsure if VMware ESXi is affected. We haven't had any issues reported (or experienced ourselves) in VirtualBox or QEMU-based software.

We are currently investigating and will provide more information on this page as we know more about it.

Workarounds

For now, the suggested workaround is to create a new user on the installed system using a chroot from the LiveISO.

Anaconda mounts the installed copy at /mnt/sysroot, so if you haven't rebooted yet and the installation is finished, you can simply chroot into it:

sudo chroot /mnt/sysroot

If you've already rebooted after installation, reboot into the LiveISO and mount the largest partition (also usually the last in a logical view) on your virtual drive, and use the same command format for where you mount it.

Now you can create a user:

useradd -G wheel <username>

This will also add the new user to the wheel group, giving it superuser powers and sudo access. If you don't do this now, you will either have to chroot again to add yourself to the group, or unlock the root account (which we do not recommend).

Finally, create a password for your new user:

passwd <username>

Then exit the chroot and reboot, you should be good to go.

Getting Support

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