[OE-core] userdel_sysroot_sstate failed when try to remove group

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2016-04-08 at 14:19 -0300, Fabio Berton wrote:
> I'm getting this error when building recipe meta-networking/recipes
> -daemons/cyrus-sasl/cyrus-sasl_2.1.26.bb
> from meta-openembedded:
> 
> DEBUG: Executing shell function userdel_sysroot_sstate
> NOTE: cyrus-sasl: Performing userdel with [--root
> /home/user/src/prj/build/tmp/sysroots/intel-core2-32 cyrus]
> NOTE: cyrus-sasl: user cyrus doesn't exist, not removing it
> NOTE: cyrus-sasl: Performing groupdel with [--root
> /home/user/src/prj/build/tmp/sysroots/intel-core2-32 mail]
> groupdel: cannot remove the primary group of user 'mail'
> WARNING: exit code 1 from a shell command.
> ERROR: cyrus-sasl: groupdel command did not succeed.
> DEBUG: Python function sysroot_cleansstate finished
> ERROR: Function failed: userdel_sysroot_sstate
> 
> The function userdel_sysroot_sstate was introduced by commit:
> http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?id=b5304ce4386
> 66a7418746f4ddd32703ae3188089
> 
> This error occurs on the first build of cyrus-sasl recipe, and I
> didn't run
> cleansstate any time. userdel_sysroot_sstate is trying to remove user
> and group before they are created.
> 
> As temporary solution I commented line SSTATECLEANFUNCS =
> "userdel_sysroot_sstate"
> in useradd.bbclass file.

Firstly, I do agree that we could use better error messages for this.

I believe the problem is the cyrus-sasl is trying to create a "mail"
group when the base-passwd file already creates such a group. If that
group creation is removed, does the recipe work again?

Cheers,

Richard