We have seen sporadic failures in our CI builds due to useradd, groupadd or groupmems failing. I have now tracked it down to perform_groupmems() in useradd_base.bbclass, where I found code to temporarily create the /etc/gshadow file in the sysroot if it did not exist. Purportedly this was due to groupmems requiring the gshadow file to exist. There are, however, no real evidence of that requirement, and actually creating and removing the file the way it is currently done WILL cause failures when one task removes it while another task expects it to already exist.
//Peter The following changes since commit 53b1fa2d3e1244c46a705d9a40ca0dbee92eab98: bitbake: build: Allow dirs/cleandirs to work for empty functions (2016-09-15 12:15:07 +0100) are available in the git repository at: git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky-contrib pkj/groupmems http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=pkj/groupmems Peter Kjellerstedt (1): useradd_base.bbclass: Do not mess with the gshadow file in the sysroot meta/classes/useradd_base.bbclass | 12 ------------ 1 file changed, 12 deletions(-) -- 2.9.0 -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
