Ubuntu
goget-ubuntu-touch package

can't create emulator instance on vivid

Bug #1412261 reported by Dimitri John Ledkov
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This bug affects 6 people
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goget-ubuntu-touch (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
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Bug Description

$ sudo ubuntu-emulator create --arch armhf --channel ubuntu-touch/devel-proposed --revision 68 vivid2
Creating "vivid2" from ubuntu-touch/devel-proposed revision 68
Downloading...
3.61 MB / 3.61 MB [========================================] 100.00 % 3.74 MB/s
31.62 MB / 31.62 MB [======================================] 100.00 % 3.49 MB/s
323.62 MB / 323.62 MB [====================================] 100.00 % 9.46 MB/s
Setting up...
Setting up a default password for phablet to: '0000'
Can't create tempfile to create emulator instance

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in goget-ubuntu-touch (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Rex Tsai (chihchun) wrote :

verified the issue, it failed if the user did not assign default password

sudo ubuntu-emulator create --arch armhf --channel ubuntu-touch/devel-proposed vivid-armhf
Creating "vivid-armhf" from ubuntu-touch/devel-proposed revision 164
Downloading...
Setting up...
Setting up a default password for phablet to: ''
No password supplied
No password supplied
No password supplied
chpasswd: (user phablet) pam_chauthtok() failed, error:
Authentication token manipulation error
chpasswd: (line 1, user phablet) password not changed

sudo ubuntu-emulator create --arch armhf --channel ubuntu-touch/devel-proposed --password=1234 vivid-armhf
Creating "vivid-armhf" from ubuntu-touch/devel-proposed revision 164
Downloading...
Setting up...
Setting up a default password for phablet to: '1234'
Creating snapshots for disks...
Succesfully created emulator instance vivid-armhf in /home/chihchun/.local/share/ubuntu-emulator/vivid-armhf

$ dpkg-query -W ubuntu-emulator
ubuntu-emulator 0.19-0~142~ubuntu14.04.1

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Ferry Toth (ftoth) wrote :

Nope, not in my case. Without default pw it tries to create '0000', with --password=1234 it tries to create '1234'.

And then fails in the same way as the reporter copied in:
ferry@chromium:~$ sudo ubuntu-emulator create --arch=i386 --password=1234 myinstance
Creating "myinstance" from ubuntu-touch/devel revision 2
Downloading...
Setting up...
Setting up a default password for phablet to: '1234'
Can't create tempfile to create emulator instance

ferry@chromium:~$ dpkg-query -W ubuntu-emulator
ubuntu-emulator 0.20-0ubuntu1

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