Hi Angel! Hope time finds you well!
Re the below, the issue is not with get.htcondor.org, it is with
the postinstall script in the HTCondor native packages themselves
-- for the curious, the code responsible is here:
https://github.com/htcondor/htcondor/blob/main/build/packaging/debian/htcondor.postinst#L33-L40
So using apt-get directly instead of get_htcondor is not going
to help.
The best thing to do is to change the login shell in the passwd
entry for user "condor" to "/usr/sbin/nologin". The reason the
install halts is the concern that the per-existing "condor"
account is accessible by some non-privileged user. That would be
a very bad thing from a security standpoint. Angel, do you know
who can login as user "condor", and do you trust that person with
near root-level access???
If you truly want to continue using the pre-existing condor
account and are ok with the risks, here is a workaround. Since
Ubuntu does not have a way to skip the postinstall (that I know
of), the workaround below edits the postinstall script and before
doing a re-install like so:
1. Issue the curl command to get.htcondor.org as you did below,
e.g. something like:
# curl -fsSL https://get.htcondor.org |
GET_HTCONDOR_PASSWORD="xxxxx" /bin/bash -s -- --channel stable
--no-dry-run --central-manager cm.myorg.edu
2. Once it stops early with the below error, cut-n-paste the
following commands as root (to change lines 39 and 43 in the
post-install script above, sigh):
# mv /etc/condor/condor_config
/etc/condor/condor_config.bak
# sed -i '39s/exit 1/mv \/etc\/condor\/condor_config.bak
\/etc\/condor\/condor_config/'
/var/lib/dpkg/info/htcondor.postinst
# sed -i '43s/chmod/mkdir -m/'
/var/lib/dpkg/info/htcondor.postinst
3. Then re-run the exact curl command you did in step #1 above to
complete the install.
We will consider adding a flag to allow an install to happen even
if the 'condor' account is not a system account (i.e. the account
can be used to login), but it is a pretty dangerous thing, so no
promises....
Hope the above helps,
Todd
On 1/12/2023 6:17 AM, Angel de Vicente wrote:
Hello,
long time since the last time I installed HTCondor, and I'm now trying
it again, using the recommended get.hcondor script
(https://htcondor.readthedocs.io/en/v10_0/getting-htcondor/install-linux-as-root.html)
System is Ubuntu 20.04, and I'm doing:
,----
| curl -fsSL https://get.htcondor.org | sudo GET_HTCONDOR_PASSWORD="xxxxx"
| /bin/bash -s -- --channel stable --no-dry-run --central-manager
| xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
`----
but the installation fails with:
,----
| Setting up libcgroup1:amd64 (0.41-10) ...
| Setting up htcondor (10.0.1-1.1) ...
| ERROR: HTCondor cannot run under unlocked non-system account 'condor'
| dpkg: error processing package htcondor (--configure):
| installed htcondor package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
| Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ...
| Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.31-0ubuntu9.9) ...
| Errors were encountered while processing:
| htcondor
| E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
`----
In this server we have a condor user with Active Directory, with a uid >
1000, which I assumed it was the cause of the error. So I created a
local condor system account, hoping it would solve the problem
,----
| $ id condor
| uid=11(condor) gid=1001(condor) groups=1001(condor),191(sieinv),2000(domain users)
`----
But after removing the half-finished installation and trying again, I
get the same error.
Is this something known? Any advice on how to get around it?
Thanks,
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