On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 21:44 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > Today I tried to do some rawhide builds in my usual mock setup (running > on updated x86_64 F11), but somehow I can't even init a chroot due to: > > Executing command: ['/usr/sbin/groupadd', '-g', '498', 'mockbuild'] > Child returncode was: 4 > > GID 498 is already occupied by exim, which gets pulled in because cronie > depends on /usr/bin/sendmail and exim has the shortest name. (cronie is > needed because of crontabs, which is a dependency of rpm.) Exim has no > requirement that it get group 498; it only calls useradd so this must > just be bad luck. > > Obviously this didn't always happen; I have no idea what has changed to > cause this situation. Anyone have any ideas for getting mock going > again? > > - J< > Mock is trying to add a user / group that matches the user / group calling it. Is the user calling it of gid 498? I thought there was a bug open asking rpm to split off the cron job into its own package (or drop it all together, or put it in a doc as an example) so that we could avoid this in the minimal install cases. I don't know what the status of that bug is. Also it could be another case of a package getting a dynamically assigned uid/gid when it may have already reserved a static one. exim may need to adjust it's scriptlets to make use of the proper uid/gid. -- Jesse Keating RHCE (http://jkeating.livejournal.com) Fedora Project (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JesseKeating) GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub) identi.ca (http://identi.ca/jkeating)
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