On Wed, 2017-02-01 at 14:34 +0100, François Patte wrote:
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If I ask passwd, I have 1 second to type the password before falling
back to prompt... So I can't type anything!
WHAT A MESS!
Well, here's what Fedora says to do:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/23/html/System_Administrato
rs_Guide/sec-Changing_and_Resetting_the_Root_Password.html
Sometimes these guidelines are a bit outdated, but it's a starting
point, I guess.
Personally, when I do an install, I do it in stages. I'll do a minimal
installation, and then install all my software, environments, etc.
later.
That way, if something in the basic install screws up, I can do a
reinstall more quickly -- in 15-30 mins or so. I used to try to
install everything at the beginning, but ended up with having to repeat
hour to 2 hour long installs.
As an aside, my experience has been the opposite of yours. I did an
upgrade that went well. About a week later, my dog knocked my laptop
off the table, which caused physical damage to the hard drive. My box
wouldn't boot -- many system files were damaged.
So, I downloaded a small live version, and booted up. I was able to
backup most of my home directory, and then did and fsck -c on the
encrypted drive. About 2500 blocks were damaged, but it managed to
rewrite the bad block inode.
Then I installed fedora 25 from a live distro -- and it came up great.
It took about 20 mins to install (and then an hour and a half to
install all the software and such).
billo