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Re: Don't I get /etc/profile with a fresh installation?


On 3/15/2016 8:36 AM, Gerrit Haase wrote:
Back then there was some postinstallation script which was creating
basic files like /etc/profile and other basic things were created with
the first login, like/home/<user> directory, including basic files
there.

That's still the case. The relevant postinstall script is /etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh. You might check /var/log/setup.log and/or /var/log/setup.log.full to see if you can tell why it failed. Or try running it manually.

Ken

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