Hi Sampson
I just saw your post on discussion.fedoraproject.org. Sorry that I vary rarely visit ask fedoraproject org and I didn’t see your question until now.
I don’t know why liveuser would hang on login, but I just had a quick look at the post on fedoramagazine.org and I see that the account is being created in a locked state:
# echo 'liveuser:!::' >> /fc28/etc/gshadow
It’s been a while since I wrote it, so I cannot be sure, but I don’t think that was what I originally wrote. I thought I had set that account to have a blank password like so:
# echo 'liveuser:::' >> /fc28/etc/gshadow
It is possible that a later editor “fixed” the text. Unfortunately, I don’t seem to have access to any sort of revision history, so I cannot tell for sure.
Anyway, my best guess based on the problem you are reporting and the current text of the article is that the password for the liveuser needs to be set (or blanked).
Alternatively, you might be able to configure the liveuser to autologin on tty1 by putting the following in /etc/systemd/system/getty@tty1.service.d/override.conf:
[Service]
ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty -o '-p -- \\u' --noclear --autologin liveuser %I $TERM
Hope that helps,
Greg Bartholomew
