[OE-core] postinst does not finish

[Richard Purdie]

On Sun, 2013-04-21 at 08:59 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> Op 19 apr. 2013, om 16:00 heeft Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net> het volgende geschreven:
> > Op 19 apr. 2013, om 15:37 heeft Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net> het volgende geschreven:
> > And it still doesn't work :(
> > 
> > root at beaglebone:~# systemctl status gdm -a
> > gdm.service - Gnome Display Manager
> >   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/gdm.service; enabled)
> >   Active: active (running) since Sat 2000-01-01 19:22:11 UTC; 13 years 3 months ago
> > Main PID: 147 (gdm-binary)
> >   CGroup: name=systemd:/system/gdm.service
> >           └─147 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon
> > 
> > Apr 19 13:56:22 beaglebone gdm-simple-slave[326]: WARNING: Couldn't look up uid
> > Apr 19 13:56:22 beaglebone gdm-simple-slave[337]: WARNING: User gdm doesn't exist
> > Apr 19 13:56:22 beaglebone gdm-simple-slave[326]: WARNING: Unable to parse output:
> > Apr 19 13:56:22 beaglebone gdm-simple-slave[326]: WARNING: Unable to parse D-Bus launch output
> > Apr 19 13:56:22 beaglebone gdm-simple-slave[338]: WARNING: User gdm doesn't exist
> > Apr 19 13:56:22 beaglebone gdm-simple-slave[326]: WARNING: Could not run helper: Failed to execute child process "/usr/lib/gdm/ck-get-x11-display-device" (No such file or directory)
> > Apr 19 13:56:22 beaglebone gdm[147]: gdm-binary[147]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 1.401004 seconds
> > Apr 19 13:56:22 beaglebone gdm-binary[147]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 1.401004 seconds
> > Apr 19 13:56:22 beaglebone gdm-binary[147]: WARNING: GdmLocalDisplayFactory: maximum number of X display failures reached: check X server log for errors
> > Apr 19 13:56:22 beaglebone gdm[147]: gdm-binary[147]: WARNING: GdmLocalDisplayFactory: maximum number of X display failures reached: check X server log for errors
> > 
> > Hmm, let's rerun gdm.postinst:
> > 
> > root at beaglebone:~# sh /var/lib/opkg/info/gdm.postinst 
> > + '[' x '!=' x ']'
> > + grep '^gdm:' /etc/group
> > + grep '^gdm:' /etc/passwd
> > + adduser --disabled-password --system --home /var/lib/gdm gdm --ingroup gdm -g gdm
> > adduser: /var/lib/gdm: File exists
> > + '[' -d /var/lib/gdm ']'
> > + chown -R gdm:gdm /var/lib/gdm
> > + chmod 0750 /var/lib/gdm
> > + mkdir -p /etc/X11/
> > + echo /usr/bin/gdm
> > + OPTS=
> > + '[' -n '' ']'
> > + type systemctl
> > + systemctl enable gdm.service
> > + '[' -z '' -a enable = enable ']'
> > + systemctl restart gdm.service
> > + test x '!=' x
> > + OPT=-s
> > + type update-rc.d
> > + update-rc.d -s gdm start 99 5 2 . stop 20 0 1 6 .
> > System startup links for /etc/init.d/gdm already exist.
> > + '[' x '!=' x ']'
> > + GDK_PIXBUF_MODULEDIR=/usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders
> > + gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders --update-cache
> > [  102.324520] tilcdc 4830e000.fb: timeout waiting for framedone
> > + for icondir in '/usr/share/icons/*'
> > + '[' -d /usr/share/icons/Crux ']'
> > + gtk-update-icon-cache -fqt /usr/share/icons/Crux
> > + for icondir in '/usr/share/icons/*'
> > + '[' -d /usr/share/icons/HighContrast ']'
> > + gtk-update-icon-cache -fqt /usr/share/icons/HighContrast
> > + for icondir in '/usr/share/icons/*'
> > + '[' -d /usr/share/icons/HighContrast-SVG ']'
> > + gtk-update-icon-cache -fqt /usr/share/icons/HighContrast-SVG
> > + for icondir in '/usr/share/icons/*'
> > + '[' -d /usr/share/icons/HighContrastInverse ']'
> > + gtk-update-icon-cache -fqt /usr/share/icons/HighContrastInverse
> > + for icondir in '/usr/share/icons/*'
> > + '[' -d /usr/share/icons/HighContrastLargePrint ']'
> > + gtk-update-icon-cache -fqt /usr/share/icons/HighContrastLargePrint
> > 
> > (etc)
> > 
> > So it looks like the postinsts do run when used inside run-postinst.service, but don't save their output (sucky description, I know).
> 
> Another datapoint, same GNOME image built for x86 finishes run-postinsts as expected, but also doesn't work, gconf stuff has to get run manually again to work.

FWIW I think there are multiple issues here and they're combining
together to make a rather weird problem.

One issue we now know about is that the intercept code and the way it
uses "exit 1" can cause some later parts of some postinst scripts not to
get executed. I believe Laurentiu has a fix for this problem and this is
the one causing the gdm issue.

I think the hang people are reporting is something else though, perhaps
related to the hwdb. I'm also aware of matchbox-session-sato conflicting
with settings-deamon and some multilib issues such as the wrong
qemuwrapper being used.

We're going to have to work through each issue in turn and re-evaluate
after each fix.

I wish we'd come across this earlier as to add fixes to the release at
this point would mean slipping the release date by a week :(. I'm
therefore leaning towards testing any fixes and queuing them quickly on
the branch post-release, following up with a point release relatively
soon to catch things that people find as the release gets more exposure.
I know the point releases have happened slowly and I want to change
that.

Cheers,

Richard