[Issue] Distrobox fails to initiate user on Void Linux guest.

[89luca89]

[Issue] Distrobox fails to initiate user on Void Linux guest.

[89luca89]

Cool will merge the PR and close the issue then, thanks a lot!

[89luca89]

Hi @byte-wolf
The error is not on no such user, the id command is just used to check if the user already exists (which does not in case of docker)
The error is that the SHELL environment variable is not set, and there is no default value for it.

I've created a new pull request HERE with a fix for it, can you check if it fixes your issue?
Thanks!

[byte-wolf]

This indeed fixed the issue and I am now able to enter my distrobox with this branch :-)

[byte-wolf]

However, I have noticed another issue specific to Void Linux as a guest system. (Does not happen with fedora-toolbox as a guest system). In the bash session in void I am unable to delete written characters with backspace and the up arrow key does recall past commands, but it appends them to the end of the current command, making it unusable.

And I think im using bash and not sh:

$ ps -p $$
    PID TTY          TIME CMD
   6789 pts/1    00:00:00 bash

(inside the distrobox)

[89luca89]

Seems like that specifically void is not picking up the environment variables we're passing
One of the symptoms was that SEHLL was not defined (which is highly unusual)
The other is this delete problem, which probably relies in the absence of a TERM variable or some other env

Can you do a envcommand to print the environment variables?

EIDIT: the problem persists between podman and docker, if we use sh -l as login shell, it works as intended, bash and zsh will behave in this way, I tend to think this is a problem with some setups not taking effect

[89luca89]

Found it! Missing package ncurses-base 👍

Added to the PR branch, it works now for me, can you check?

EDIT: to be clear this is a packaging decision on Void's side, all other will set ncurses as a dependency of bash, you can see it HERE, so just to be sure, let's install ncurses manually for all 👍

[byte-wolf]

Yes, it now works as intended. Thank you for your help and I hope this helps others trying to experiment with a void distrobox :-)