bug#17786: group specified in `build-users-group' does not exist

[Ludovic Courtès]

close 17786
tags 17786 notabug
thanks

Tomas Cech <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:57:16AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>Hello,
>>
>>Please keep address@hidden Cc’d.
>>
>>Tomas Cech <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 01:52:36PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>>>Tomas Cech <address@hidden> skribis:
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 09:48:39AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>>>>>Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Tomas Cech <address@hidden> skribis:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> guix package: error: build failed: the group `"guix-builders"' 
>>>>>>> specified in
>>>>>>> `build-users-group' does not exist
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> # grep guix /etc/passwd
>>>>>>> guix-builder1:x:61:479:Guix builder 1:/var/empty:/sbin/nologin
>>>>>>> guix-builder2:x:62:479:Guix builder 2:/var/empty:/sbin/nologin
>>>>>>> guix-builder3:x:63:479:Guix builder 3:/var/empty:/sbin/nologin
>>>>>>> guix-builder4:x:64:479:Guix builder 4:/var/empty:/sbin/nologin
>>>>>>> guix-builder5:x:65:479:Guix builder 5:/var/empty:/sbin/nologin
>>>>>>> # grep guix /etc/group
>>>>>>> guix-builders:x:479:guix-builder1,guix-builder2,guix-builder3,guix-builder4,guix-builder5
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Nothing seems to be obviously wrong, but guix ends with this error.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Hmm, what does “getent group guix-builders” return?
>>>>>>And “getent passwd guix-builder1”?
>>>>>
>>>>> # getent group guix-builders
>>>>> guix-builders:x:479:guix-builder1,guix-builder2,guix-builder3,guix-builder4,guix-builder5
>>>>> # getent passwd guix-builder1
>>>>> guix-builder1:x:61:479:Guix builder 1:/var/empty:/sbin/nologin
>>>>
>>>>So that’s all good.
>>>>
>>>>The daemon simply does that (build.cc):
>>>>
>>>>--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>>>    /* Get the members of the build-users-group. */
>>>>    struct group * gr = getgrnam(settings.buildUsersGroup.c_str());
>>>>    if (!gr)
>>>>        throw Error(format("the group `%1%' specified in 
>>>> `build-users-group' does not exist")
>>>>            % settings.buildUsersGroup);
>>>>--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>>>
>>>>Can you try getgrnam("guix-builders") in C or some other language (from
>>>>Guile: (getgrnam "guix-builders")) ?
>>>
>>> scheme@(guile-user)> (getgrnam "guix-builders")
>>> $2 = #("guix-builders" "x" 479 ("guix-builder1" "guix-builder2" 
>>> "guix-builder3" "guix-builder4" "guix-builder5"))
>>
>>Then there’s something weird: Guile’s getgrnam directly corresponds to
>>libc’s getgrnam(3), which is what guix-daemon uses in the snippet above.
>>
>>Oh, I see the error message you gave above reads:
>>
>>  the group `"guix-builders"'
>>
>>Note the extra double quotes.
>>
>>Could it be that the script that launches guix-daemon does something
>>that amounts to:
>>
>>  guix-daemon '--build-users-group="guix-builders"'
>>
>>That is, it leaves the double quotes as is in the argument?
>
> It seems to be that case. Thank you and sorry for the noise...

OK, good to know.

Thanks,
Ludo’.