9521 2016-04-26 13:24:51 +0000 Can't install dbus 2016-07-29 15:44:45 +0000 1 1 7 Build System, Metadata & Runtime OE-Core core unspecified All Multiple VERIFIED DUPLICATE 9496 Medium+ normal 2.2 M1 1 gary ross.burton jose.perez.carranza meta.mr.watcher meta.watcher --- --- Don't know oldest_to_newest 61688 0 gary 2016-04-26 13:24:51 +0000 Trying to install dbus-1 on an existing system (using opkg) fails: Installing shadow-base (4.2.1-r0.0) on root. Downloading http://192.168.1.15/teton-p7618-feeds/cortexa7-neon/shadow-base_4.2.1-r0.0_cortexa7-neon.ipk. Removing any system startup links for dbus-1 ... Running groupadd commands... NOTE: dbus: Performing groupadd with [ -r netdev] ERROR: dbus: groupadd command did not succeed. To remove package debris, try `opkg remove dbus-1`. To re-attempt the install, try `opkg install dbus-1`. Collected errors: * pkg_run_script: package "dbus-1" preinst script returned status 1. * preinst_configure: Aborting installation of dbus-1. Once in this state, dbus-1 is neither installed nor not installed (stuck) Tested with Poky 20a0121b558b32179220e394a66cb90dc6ff3879 Note: dbus can be installed initially in an image just fine, just not after the fact. 61695 1 ross.burton 2016-04-26 16:37:38 +0000 Pasting from the relevant thread: """ Interesting info from 'strace' 1147 execve("/usr/local/bin/ groupadd -r netdev", [" groupadd -r netdev"], [/* 12 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 1147 execve("/usr/bin/ groupadd -r netdev", [" groupadd -r netdev"], [/* 12 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 1147 execve("/bin/ groupadd -r netdev", [" groupadd -r netdev"], [/* 12 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 1147 execve("/usr/local/sbin/ groupadd -r netdev", [" groupadd -r netdev"], [/* 12 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 1147 execve("/usr/sbin/ groupadd -r netdev", [" groupadd -r netdev"], [/* 12 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 1147 execve("/sbin/ groupadd -r netdev", [" groupadd -r netdev"], [/* 12 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) """ Looks a lot like execve is being passed a bad path as there's a space between the $PATH entry and groupadd. 61696 2 ross.burton 2016-04-26 16:39:57 +0000 Can you cherry-pick 84686b51043c5a6b0ae184d00f547ccbd7832f39 and see if that fixes it please? 61709 3 gary 2016-04-27 06:17:51 +0000 (In reply to comment #2) > Can you cherry-pick 84686b51043c5a6b0ae184d00f547ccbd7832f39 and see if that > fixes it please? Yes, that does fix it. 61711 4 ross.burton 2016-04-27 07:39:25 +0000 So the workaround is to install core-utils in images so that flock is core-utils instead of busybox. We're literally about to release so this may have to be release noted for 2.1. 61798 5 ross.burton 2016-04-28 14:46:22 +0000 Marking a duplicate of bug 9496. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 9496 *** 64659 6 jose.perez.carranza 2016-07-29 15:44:45 +0000 duplicated bug