[Bug 2040654] Re: Mantic autoinstall.yaml fails on late commands

[madjax]

@dbungert ok I understand, but isn't desktop also important that it works? :) How will the issues on desktop be addressed? It stopped working after 23.04. I know it was new installer for the desktop version then, but it is very important to me that it works.
My university wishes to have a fully functional Ubuntu 24.04 Desktop LTS available with autoinstall by next year (no pressure on me...haha). That is why I have been experimenting with 23.04 and 23.10. We have 22.04 Desktop LTS automated with preseed on the older installer, but it has its limitations.
If I can show a automated install with 23.10/24.04 I can get a real project going with real funding for Ubuntu Pro licenses (Landscape)...and build a support team around it.
I hope you can help me :)

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Title:
  Mantic autoinstall.yaml fails on late commands

Status in subiquity:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Description:
  Late commands in the autoinstall.yaml file worked for 23.04 installer. "As Far As We Know": Nothing has been  changed for that process between 23.04 and 23.10. I have verified that from the example yaml files in /snap/ubuntu-desktop-installer/1[0-9][0-9][0-9]/usr/share/doc/*/examples/

  Yet the autoinstall scripts we have working for 23.04, fail on late
  commands for 23.10.They seem to work for internal bash commands, but
  not for starting installer bash scripts used for installing packages
  and other environment setup.

  This worked for 23.04, no longer with 23.10 or 23.04.1.

  RE: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2491776

  Expected Behavior:
  Late Command to run custom late-install scripts works.

  Steps to Reproduce:

  Use this yaml, or sililar file --+v
  ###
  version: 1
    refresh-installer:
            update: yes
    keyboard:
      layout: se
    locale: en_US.UTF-8
    timezone: Europe/Stockholm
    identity:
      hostname: unassigned-hostname
      username: ubuntu
      password: ubuntu (not the real one)
    source:
      search_drivers: true
      id: ubuntu-desktop-minimal
    storage:
      layout:
        name: direct
    updates: all
    late-commands:
      - mkdir /target/opt/packages
      - mkdir /target/opt/scripts
      - cp -r /cdrom/packages /target/opt
      - cp -r /cdrom/nocloud/scripts /target/opt
      - curtin in-target -- bash /opt/scripts/post-install1.sh
      - curtin in-target -- bash /opt/scripts/post-install2.sh
      - curtin in-target -- bash /opt/scripts/post-install3.sh
  ###
  Use logger in those scripts to log that they were called an ran to verify that it is working...

  If no log entries, then it failed.

  *** The scripts and everything is getting copied over. The scripts are not running
    All those scripts can run manually after the install. Just not from within the installer.

  Alternate work-arounds:
   - We have tried adding the full path /usr/bin/bash to the late command,. That also fails...
   - We have tried chmod'ing the scripts to make them executable and calling them directly. That also fails

  Has something changed?

  The Noble repo's are up now. We start testing that as soon as the
  packages are really ready for that. Right now they are still the
  Mantic packages, so this release is also affected.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.10
  Package: subiquity (unknown)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.5.0-9.9-generic 6.5.3
  Uname: Linux 6.5.0-9-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs
  ApportVersion: 2.27.0-0ubuntu5
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
  CasperVersion: 1.486
  CloudArchitecture: x86_64
  CloudID: nocloud
  CloudName: unknown
  CloudPlatform: nocloud
  CloudSubPlatform: seed-dir (/var/lib/cloud/seed/nocloud)
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Wed Oct 25 19:40:17 2023
  DesktopInstallerRev: 1267
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 23.10.1 "Mantic Minotaur" - Release amd64 (20231016.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=C.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   TERM=xterm-256color
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
  SourcePackage: subiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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