Created attachment 5076 [details]
Log of do_image step for core-image-minimal

When DISTRO_FEATURES contains systemd, systemd_preset_all is added to IMAGE_PREPROCESS_COMMAND.

This function uses recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin/systemctl to create links in etc/systemd/system/, but in the rootfs of the image the processed files can point on nothing (depending on the host distro, mine is Ubunut 20.04). In fact it points to a file in /usr/lib/, that will be OK on the target but can not exist on the dev environment.

In my case /dd/test-scarthgap-bug/build/tmp/work/qemux86_64-poky-linux/core-image-minimal/1.0/rootfs/etc/systemd/system/default.target -> /usr/lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target, which triggers the error.

This leads to an error in path.is_dir() test of systemctl, due to self.stat() test in python3.12 pathlib.py :

    def stat(self, *, follow_symlinks=True):
        """
        Return the result of the stat() system call on this path, like
        os.stat() does.
        """
        return os.stat(self, follow_symlinks=follow_symlinks)

Same image with dunfell, using python3.8, worked fine, with different code in pathlib.py :

    def stat(self):
        """
        Return the result of the stat() system call on this path, like
        os.stat() does.
        """
        return self._accessor.stat(self)


Tests conditions: build core-image-minimal with just poky layer activated.