Forgotten home dir

Hello all,

I came across a strange problem during installation: FAI seems to forget the home directory of the root user in the installation system.

echo $HOME
/

echo ~
/

whoami
root

grep root /etc/passwd
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash

So, according to /etc/passwd the home directory of the root user is  /root . But in the running installation system, this is forgotten and defaults to / .

This in turn causes major pain, because in the home directory of the root user, I have configuration files e.g. for the package downloads via curl through our company obligatory authenticating WWW-Proxy. If the home dir is wrong, it does not find it's config and fails.

I can manually define "export HOME=/root" and then downloading and installing packages works again. Of course only in the current shell.

I used to have a workaround by just adding this above definition into  /srv/fai/config/hooks/updatebase.OPENSUSE .
This was working for some time, but as I am continuing to build and improve my installation system, this is no longer enough. Looks like the home directory gets forgotten again when the install_packages stage read my config file OPENSUSE . Before this point downloading and installing packages work. At this point it fails.

Any ideas? Anybody else experienced this?

Regards,
Frank
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Frank Morawietz