Bug 20605

Hi John,

Thanks for your report. I suppose you upgraded today, March 30?

Please attach journal.txt that is the result of running, as root,

    
     journalctl --since="2017-03-30" > journal.txt

If you upgraded yesterday, you can run

    journalctl --since="2017-03-29" --until="2017-03-30" > journal.txt


(If journal.txt is too large to attach, then please compress it with xz

   xz journal.txt

 and attach journal.txt.xz)

Component: Release (media or process) => RPM Packages
Source RPM: (none) => dhcpd, named
Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: sysadmin-bugs => guillomovitch, marja11, shlomif

Marja, 
No, unfortunately I managed this upgrade a while ago because I needed some package versions that were not in mga5. I update regularly now to follow cauldron improvement. But as it's quiet rare I rely on this computer as a dhcp server. I only realize now it's not running anymore. If needed I will try to find in the huge journal when I've done that...

Created attachment 9167 [details]
journal for dhcpd

We can see that creating user dhcpd failed but that the transaction is ok and dhcp-server is installed

Created attachment 9168 [details]
journal for named

and the same for named. Fail to create user named didn't fail to install bind.

(In reply to john gibbe from comment #3)
> Created attachment 9167 [details]
> journal for dhcpd
> 
> We can see that creating user dhcpd failed but that the transaction is ok
> and dhcp-server is installed

indeed: 

mars 26 08:25:59 PC-JOHN useradd[21336]: failed adding user 'dhcpd', data deleted

mars 26 08:25:59 PC-JOHN [RPM][20807]: install dhcp-server-3:4.3.5-1.mga6.x86_64: success

(In reply to john gibbe from comment #4)
> Created attachment 9168 [details]
> journal for named
> 
> and the same for named. Fail to create user named didn't fail to install
> bind.

mars 30 17:37:22 PC-JOHN useradd[13697]: failed adding user 'named', data deleted

mars 30 17:37:23 PC-JOHN [RPM][13178]: install bind-9.10.4.P6-1.mga6.x86_64: success

I don't know whether this bug report should be cloned and then one kept for & assigned to bind and the other for dhcp, or whether there's one underlying issue with a different package.

CC'ing some more people with much more related knowledge than me.

Source RPM: dhcpd, named => dhcp-4.3.5-1.mga6, bind-9.10.4.P6-1.mga6
CC: (none) => davidwhodgins, luigiwalser, pterjan
Summary: dhcpd and named can't start after an update from mga5 to cauldron => dhcpd and named can't start after an update from mga5 to cauldron, because the named and dhcpd users no longer exist.
Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)

Certainly the issue isn't with the BIND or DHCP packages.  The useradd command shouldn't be failing miserably like that, so there's your problem.

(In reply to David Walser from comment #6)
> Certainly the issue isn't with the BIND or DHCP packages.  The useradd
> command shouldn't be failing miserably like that, so there's your problem.

I failed to see how useradd could be the problem, when I've never seen it fail, but now it pops to my mind that it could be a problem with how it is called, with whatever switches/options or so.

In the bind spec there is:

   %pre
   %_pre_useradd named /var/lib/named /bin/false


and in the dhcp spec there is:

  %pre server
  %_pre_useradd dhcpd /dev/null /bin/false


"rpm --eval %_pre_useradd" returns:
/usr/share/rpm-helper/add-user %{name} $1 %{1} %{2} %{3} 

But I fail to understand the /usr/share/rpm-helper/add-user script, so I fail to see how I can test on which part useradd fails.

Assigning to all packagers collectively.

Source RPM: dhcp-4.3.5-1.mga6, bind-9.10.4.P6-1.mga6 => dhcp-4.3.5-1.mga6, bind-9.10.4.P6-1.mga6, shadow-utils,
Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs

Mageia 6 is long since EOL.  Closing.

Resolution: (none) => OLD
Status: NEW => RESOLVED