Re: HELP NEEDED: debuging a ppc64el autopkgtest failure involving polkitd?

Michael Biebl <[email protected]> Thu, 12 Jun 2025 23:43:22 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.ports.powerpc
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Am 12.06.25 um 23:27 schrieb Theodore Ts'o:
> Creating group 'polkitd' with GID 989.   <---- We created the polkitd group here
> Creating user 'polkitd' (User for polkitd) with UID 989 and GID 989.
> chown: invalid group: ‘root:polkitd’ <---------- Huh?!?!?


..

> So this is a really big mystery.  I've cc'ed folks who are involved
> with polkitd and debianutils, as well as sending this query to the
> ppc64el developers, hoping that someone can give me a hint as to what
> might be going on.    What am I missing?

It's certainly not an e2fsprogs issue.
debian-edu-config has already been failing in the past quite often with 
the same error message as above.

The oldest failing log is from 2025-04-18 22:11:45 UTC
https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/ppc64el/d/debian-edu-config/60154832/log.gz


Unfortunately older logs have already been garbage collected.

polkitd has an autopkgtest which installs the package, include the above 
creation of the polkitd user and the test runs reliably on ppc64el:
https://ci.debian.net/packages/p/policykit-1/unstable/ppc64el/


So maybe some weird interaction is going on by the way the 
debian-edu-config test bed is setup.

Haven't seen this failure myself before, so sorry if I can't be of more 
help.


Michael

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