Re: [poky] Just need a user to exist but I'm getting a package install error on my recipe #poky #raspberrypi

On 2/28/25 8:00 AM, John via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> I'm trying to create a user for my board. I require a user in order to 
> have pulseaudio to run as a user level service in systemd startup.
> I've included my "board-user.bb" file which is a greatly cut down 
> recipe from the skeleton examples provided in poky. I've also included 
> the recipe for my board file which is just a rename of the 
> "core-image-minimal.bb" file and my changes. It is there I've added my 
> board-user recipe so that all versions of my "libby" image will have 
> the user "libby".
> My error that I'm getting is:
>
>     ERROR: libby-image-1.0-r0 do_rootfs: Unable to install packages.
>     Command
>     '/home/jdowd/Project/Libby/poky/build/tmp/work/raspberrypi0_64_wf-oe-linux/libby-image/1.0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin/opkg
>     --volatile-cache -f
>     /home/jdowd/Project/Libby/poky/build/tmp/work/raspberrypi0_64_wf-oe-linux/libby-image/1.0/opkg.conf
>     -t
>     /home/jdowd/Project/Libby/poky/build/tmp/work/raspberrypi0_64_wf-oe-linux/libby-image/1.0/temp/ipktemp/
>     -o
>     /home/jdowd/Project/Libby/poky/build/tmp/work/raspberrypi0_64_wf-oe-linux/libby-image/1.0/rootfs
>      --force_postinstall --prefer-arch-to-version   install alsa-lib
>     alsa-utils bluez5 board-user dhcpcd i2c-tools
>     linux-firmware-bcm43430 openssh packagegroup-core-boot
>     pi-bluetooth pulseaudio-server run-postinsts sudo util-linux
>     wpa-supplicant' returned 255:
>     *error: opkg_solver_install: No candidates to install board-user
>     (null)!*
>     *error: opkg_finalize_intercepts: Failed to open dir
>     /home/jdowd/Project/Libby/poky/build/tmp/work/raspberrypi0_64_wf-oe-linux/libby-image/1.0/temp/ipktemp//opkg-XorTPq/opkg-intercept-w88StC:
>     No such file or directory.*
>
> I'm not sure where to go with this. Why would opkg have an issue with 
> this? In fact there is only the side effect of the "adduser" command 
> running so that the user is installed on the rootfs properly. It 
> should be modifying files and creating a directory.
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.


try adding

ALLOW_EMPTY:${PN} = "1"

in board-user.bb

> Cheers!!
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