[OE-core] why does useradd.bbclass loop retrying its commands?
Peter A. Bigot
pab at pabigot.com
Sat Nov 15 05:37:59 UTC 2014
The useradd, groupadd, and groupmems commands in useradd.bbclass are
executed in a loop with up to 10 failed attempts before they give up.
This appears to have always been the case, as long as that file has been
present.
Is there any reason why an initial failed attempt to execute one of
these commands would be expected to succeed on retry, other than because
delaying failure gives a chance for concurrently executing task to
complete and so satisfy a dependency?
(This isn't the root cause of the pseudo autobuilder failure under
multilib, but it did look plausible for a while.)
Peter
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