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Berkeley Common Environment provides a common Linux computational environment for classwork and research.
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installation of mosh has a problem #23

Closed paciorek closed 9 years ago

paciorek commented 9 years ago

Aaron asked for mosh and git-annex to be installed post-install (perhaps only on EC2?).

Installation via apt-get update gives this error (illustrating here with mosh)

Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6.5) ... Processing triggers for ufw (0.34~rc-0ubuntu2) ...

*\ Please tell me who you are.

Run

git config --global user.email "you@example.com" git config --global user.name "Your Name"

to set your account's default identity. Omit --global to set the identity only in this repository.

fatal: unable to auto-detect email address (got 'root@master.(none)') E: Problem executing scripts DPkg::Post-Invoke 'if [ -x /usr/bin/etckeeper ]; then etckeeper post-install; fi' E: Sub-process returned an error code

aculich commented 9 years ago

Looks like your post-install needs to configure git in the root account first before you do the apt-get which triggers etckeeper

Here's the bruteforce way to do it in your post-install:

git config --global user.email "bce@lists.berkeley.edu"
git config --global user.name "BCE Release Team"

It's unfortunate that it doesn't automatically capture that common error and gracefully handle an unconfigured case like this.

paciorek commented 9 years ago

Ok, I added Aaron's lines to the post-install script, modify-for-aws.sh and things seem fine now.