Odd user/group identity lookup problem

[John.Florian@xxxxxxxx]

I'm building F18 images with livecd-creator
on F18 and for the first build attempt after boot, I see many unexpected
errors like this snippet shows:

[snip]
  Installing: libsemanage  
               #####################
[315/492] 
  Installing: shadow-utils  
              #####################
[316/492] 
groupadd: failure while writing changes
to /etc/group
groupadd: failure while writing changes
to /etc/group
  Installing: libutempter  
               ###    
              [317/492]warning: group
utempter does not exist - using root
warning: group utmp does not exist -
using root
  Installing: libutempter  
               #####################
[317/492] 
[snip]
  Installing: parted    
                  #####################
[331/492] 
groupadd: failure while writing changes
to /etc/group
useradd: group 'dhcpd' does not exist
  Installing: dhcp    
                    ####################
 [332/492]warning: user dhcpd does not exist - using root
warning: group dhcpd does not exist
- using root
warning: user dhcpd does not exist -
using root
warning: group dhcpd does not exist
- using root
warning: user dhcpd does not exist -
using root
warning: group dhcpd does not exist
- using root
  Installing: dhcp    
                    #####################
[332/492] 
[snip]
  Installing: os-prober  
                 #####################
[335/492] 
groupadd: failure while writing changes
to /etc/group
  Installing: openssh    
                 ##########
           [336/492]warning: group ssh_keys
does not exist - using root
[snip]
  Installing: samba-common  
              #####################
[338/492] 
Failed to initialize SELinux context:
No such file or directory
  Installing: iputils    
                 #####################
[339/492] 
[snip]
  Installing: mesa-dri-drivers
            ##################### [347/492]

groupadd: failure while writing changes
to /etc/group
useradd: group 'polkitd' does not exist
  Installing: polkit    
                     
                  [348/492]warning:
user polkitd does not exist - using root
[snip]
  Installing: alsa-utils  
                #####################
[354/492] 
error: %pre(rpcbind-0.2.0-17.fc18.i686)
scriptlet failed, exit status 6
error: rpcbind-0.2.0-17.fc18.i686: install
failed
groupadd: failure while writing changes
to /etc/group
useradd: group 'chrony' does not exist
  Installing: chrony    
                     
                  [356/492]warning:
group chrony does not exist - using root
  Installing: chrony    
                  ####################
 [356/492]warning: user chrony does not exist - using root
warning: group chrony does not exist
- using root
warning: user chrony does not exist
- using root
warning: group chrony does not exist
- using root
  Installing: chrony    
                  #####################
[356/492] 
[snip]

If I let it run through to completion
and rerun the exact same command again, everything works normally.  I
used to see this behavior for every build attempt prior to sssd coming
along when I was still using nscd, if nscd was running.  Back then
I'd have to stop nscd for the duration of the build.  I never had
such a problem with sssd, but this looks eerily familiar now with F18 (where
I'm still using sssd instead of nscd).

Has anyone else seen something similar,
or is this a known bug?  I have not had a chance to dig into this
yet, but I've been seeing this with F18 since before Alpha was out.

PS.  FWIW, this F18 box started
life as F17 and was been yum distro-sync'd and kept updated.

--
John Florian

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