Hi, I'm trying to debug an autopkgtest failure for debian-edu-config against an e2fsprogs upload. It's only happening on ppc64el[1]. And the funny thing is that it passed on e2fsprogs 1.47.2-2, but failed on e2fsprogs 1.47.2-3, and the only change was fixing a bug in the fuse2fs.postrm script --- and from the logs, debian-edu-config doesn't install fuse2fs.
[1] https://ci.debian.net/packages/d/debian-edu-config/testing/ppc64el/ The specific failure is very strange, and looks like it is a failure in adding a group for polkitd: Creating group 'polkitd' with GID 989. <---- We created the polkitd group here Creating user 'polkitd' (User for polkitd) with UID 989 and GID 989. chown: invalid group: ‘root:polkitd’ <---------- Huh?!?!? To see the full failing autopkgtest log[2], as well as a "good" autopkgtest run[3], I've included links to them here. [2] https://ci.debian.net/packages/d/debian-edu-config/testing/ppc64el/61390462/ [3] https://ci.debian.net/packages/d/debian-edu-config/testing/ppc64el/61375791/ As near as I can tell, the failing chown for an invalid group that was *just* created two lines earlier in the long has nothing to do with e2fsprogs, and from looking at the test artifacts the only *other* difference other than the newer version of e2fsprogs is a different version of debianutils: diff -ru art-bad/testbed-packages art-good/testbed-packages --- art-bad/testbed-packages 2025-06-12 17:54:09 +++ art-good/testbed-packages 2025-06-10 06:47:39 @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ dbus-user-session 1.16.2-2 debconf 1.5.91 debian-archive-keyring 2025.1 -debianutils 5.23.1 +debianutils 5.22 dialog 1.3-20250116-1 diffutils 1:3.10-4 dpkg 1.22.20 .... but i don't see how debianutils could make a difference, either. So this is a really big mystery. I've cc'ed folks who are involved with polkitd and debianutils, as well as sending this query to the ppc64el developers, hoping that someone can give me a hint as to what might be going on. What am I missing? Many thanks!!! - Ted
