[OE-core] [PATCH 0/1] shadow-native: disable logging to syslog

[Chris Larson]

On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Saul Wold <sgw at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On 04/05/2012 11:53 PM, Scott Garman wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> This pull request includes a patch to shadow to disable logging to
>> syslog, to prevent sysroot user and group additions from writing
>> entries to the host's syslog.
>>
>> I have build-tested this with core-image-sato (which builds a few
>> useradd-based recipes, such as avahi and dbus) for all 5 of our
>> qemu architectures, while watching my syslog to verify that no
>> useradd or groupadd entries were written.
>>
>
> With this patch applied, the following error was seen on the AB:
>
> | Running useradd commands...
> | WARNING: useradd command did not succeed. Retrying...
> | WARNING: useradd command did not succeed. Retrying...
> | WARNING: useradd command did not succeed. Retrying...
> | WARNING: useradd command did not succeed. Retrying...
> | WARNING: useradd command did not succeed. Retrying...
> | WARNING: useradd command did not succeed. Retrying...
> | WARNING: useradd command did not succeed. Retrying...
> | WARNING: useradd command did not succeed. Retrying...
> | WARNING: useradd command did not succeed. Retrying...
> | WARNING: useradd command did not succeed. Retrying...
> | ERROR: tried running useradd command 10 times without success, giving up
>
> Check the AB here:
>
> http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org:8010/builders/nightly-arm/builds/369/steps/shell_19/logs/stdio

We've (Mentor) hit this failure, usually from openssh's do_install,
from our automated builds at random over the past week or two.
-- 
Christopher Larson