5694 2013-12-31 01:55:10 +0000 smart reads the host's /etc/passwd instead of the sysroot when creating a new rootfs 2015-02-16 20:30:29 +0000 1 1 7 Build System, Metadata & Runtime OE-Core devtools / tool chain 1.5 x86 Multiple RESOLVED FIXED Medium normal 1.8 M3 1 sgw randy.e.witt meta.mr.watcher meta.watcher tomw --- --- No (bug/feature does not impact docs) oldest_to_newest 39631 0 sgw 2013-12-31 01:55:10 +0000 We found this problem when a recipe tries to chown files to a user (www-data in this case). On my host system's /etc/passwd and /etc/group did not have a www-data user, I noted in my logs warnings: warning: user www-data does not exist - using root But when I checked the tmp/sysroots/qemux86-64/etc/passwd, www-data user existed in that file. Further investigation via strace, revealed that smart first looks in the newly created rootfs/etc/passwd (which is not installed yet) and then falls back to the host's /etc/passwd, clearly we need to fall back to the sysroot password file, which will have the right collection of users. This applies to both passwd and group. Tom Walsh pointed this issue out originally on IRC 39638 1 1702 tomw 2013-12-31 12:42:44 +0000 Created attachment 1702 smart failure to access correct /etc/passwd 39639 2 tomw 2013-12-31 12:44:48 +0000 This occurs if you fail to add RDEPENDS_${PN} = "base-passwd" to a recipe which then uses chown / install to change user/group ownership. 48410 3 randy.e.witt 2015-01-29 18:35:11 +0000 This appears to still happen in dizzy-12.0.0. However, in dizzy-12.0.1 it appears to have been fixed. In dizzy-12.0.1 when using the attached recipe, the "install -o www-data -g www-data -d ${D}/foobar" fails as expected even when using a user that exists on the host. I believe this was fixed with the series of patches at: http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2014-November/099051.html 48871 4 randy.e.witt 2015-02-16 20:30:29 +0000 As mentioned this is fixed in 1.7.1. 1702 2013-12-31 12:42:44 +0000 2013-12-31 12:42:44 +0000 smart failure to access correct /etc/passwd foo_1.0.bb text/plain 366 tomw REVTQ1JJUFRJT04gPSAidGVzdCBjYXNlIgpMSUNFTlNFID0gIkdQTHYyIgpMSUNfRklMRVNfQ0hL U1VNID0gImZpbGU6Ly8ke1dPUktESVJ9L0NPUFlJTkc7bWQ1PWNmNjk3MGRjZDU5MTNhM2EyZGU3 Y2I0YmZjYWY1YjM2IgoKU1JDX1VSSSA9ICJmaWxlOi8vQ09QWUlORyIKClBSID0gInIwIgoKZG9f aW5zdGFsbCAoKSB7CglpbnN0YWxsIC1vIHd3dy1kYXRhIC1nIHd3dy1kYXRhIC1kICR7RH0vZm9v YmFyCgl0b3VjaCAke0R9L2Zvb2Jhci9lbXB0eQoJY2hvd24gd3d3LWRhdGE6d3d3LWRhdGEgJHtE fS9mb29iYXIvZW1wdHkKfQoKRklMRVNfJHtQTn0gPSAiL2Zvb2Jhci9lbXB0eSIKClJERVBFTkRT XyR7UE59ID0gImJhc2UtcGFzc3dkIgoK