Re: [gentoo-user] could there be a problem with acct-group/lp?

[n952162 <n952162@web.de>]

On 12/31/20 12:33 AM, Jack wrote:
> On 2020.12.30 17:17, n952162 wrote:
>> When I try to restore my pkgs, after the --depclean, the emerge fails.
>> It seems like there's an error in the pre-inst script of acct-group/lp?
>> That's need by cups:
>>
>> 1270~/adm/gentoo/emerged>sudo cat
>> /var/tmp/portage/acct-group/lp-0-r1/temp/build.log
>>  * Package:    acct-group/lp-0-r1
>>  * Repository: gentoo
>>  * Maintainer: systemd@gentoo.org printing@gentoo.org
>>  * USE:        abi_x86_64 amd64 elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU
>>  * FEATURES:   network-sandbox preserve-libs sandbox userpriv
>> usersandbox
>> >>> Unpacking source...
>> >>> Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/acct-group/lp-0-r1/work
>> >>> Preparing source in /var/tmp/portage/acct-group/lp-0-r1/work ...
>> >>> Source prepared.
>> >>> Configuring source in /var/tmp/portage/acct-group/lp-0-r1/work ...
>> >>> Source configured.
>> >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/acct-group/lp-0-r1/work ...
>> >>> Source compiled.
>> >>> Test phase [not enabled]: acct-group/lp-0-r1
>>
>> >>> Install acct-group/lp-0-r1 into
>> /var/tmp/portage/acct-group/lp-0-r1/image
>> >>> Completed installing acct-group/lp-0-r1 into
>> /var/tmp/portage/acct-group/lp-0-r1/image
>>
>>  * Final size of build directory:  4 KiB
>>  * Final size of installed tree:  20 KiB
>>
>>  * checking 1 files for package collisions
>> >>> Merging acct-group/lp-0-r1 to /
>> error writing group entry: Invalid argument
>>  * Adding group 'lp' to your system ...
>> error writing group entry: Invalid argument
>>  *  - Groupid: 7
>> groupadd: group 'lp' already exists
> This seems to be the basic cause.


Perhaps.  But there are two "invalid argument" error messages before the
"already exists" msg.


> However, I have no idea what that emerge should do if the group it
> wants to install does already exist.  I can re-emerge this package
> with no problems.


That's interesting!  Maybe re-emerge would behave differently from a
de-install/emerge?

In any case though, crashing if the group already exists would be a bug
the developers should be interested in.


> Is this a new install or reinstall?  All the logic is in the eclass
> which does have the comment "Creates the group if it does not exist."


I was looking for that ... I didn't find groupadd in
/var/db/pkg/acct-group/lp-0.  Where should I look?


>
> What happens if you just run "emerge -1 acct-group/lp"?


Same thing


> Have you done a successful "emerge -auDvN @system" ?


Yes


> There may well be something else required still missing, but not an
> explicit dependency because it is part of @system.
>
>

One thing I just re-discovered is --keep-going, which works, thank
goodness, so I'll should have a working system (sometime tomorrow!),
albeit, without cups.