Quickstart issue

[mmichau]

Hi I tried to install everything using a Quickstart method but Ansible failed on the task:

TASK [sdarwin.vnc : Create .vnc dirs] ****************************************** failed: [127.0.0.1] (item={'username': 'ubuntu', 'usergroup': 'ubuntu', 'vnc_num': 1, 'vnc_default_password': 'mypassword'}) => {"ansible_loop_var": "item", "changed": false, "gid": 0, "group": "root", "item": {"usergroup": "ubuntu", "username": "ubuntu", "vnc_default_password": "mypassword", "vnc_num": 1}, "mode": "0755", "msg": "chown failed: failed to look up user ubuntu", "owner": "root", "path": "/home/ubuntu/.vnc", "size": 2, "state": "directory", "uid": 0}

How to manage this error? Is it something to change in the code or in my system?

[sdarwin]

Hi mmichau, nice to hear from you.
As when reporting any bug you should provide some information about your system. What is the operating system and version?
Please copy-paste the results of cat /etc/os-release

[mmichau]

cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION_ID="22.04"
VERSION="22.04.3 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)"
VERSION_CODENAME=jammy
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
UBUNTU_CODENAME=jammy

[sdarwin]

Thanks. Next, please describe the server you are installing on. For example

• An ec2 server instance in AWS
• A hardware server in your datacenter
• A docker container running in kubernetes in google.
• etc.

Is it a new server with nothing on it, or has it been in production for a long time?
If you log in, which users are present?

ls -al /home

I suspect the user ubuntu isn't there. In that case, you can't run the quickstart exactly as-is. But you may use this ansible role like any regular ansible role. Define the variable vnc_users within host_vars or group_vars, or even modify the playbook. The following is an example but change the user to match the user you will be using:

vnc_users:
  - username: 'ubuntu'
    usergroup: 'ubuntu'     # usergroup is optional. Defaults to username.
    #port 5901 is 1
    vnc_num: 1
    vnc_default_password: mypassword

[mmichau]

An old PC with a fresh install of Ubuntu.
There is only one user created for me during the installation.

command ls -al /home gives two users, mine and ubuntu (not created by me)

[sdarwin]

I would be curious to find out what's going on. But anyway, for now, try setting vnc_users: with your own user account instead of ubuntu.