HELP NEEDED: debuging a ppc64el autopkgtest failure involving polkitd?
Hi, I'm trying to debug an autopkgtest failure for debian-edu-config
against an e2fsprogs upload. It's only happening on ppc64el[1]. And
the funny thing is that it passed on e2fsprogs 1.47.2-2, but failed on
e2fsprogs 1.47.2-3, and the only change was fixing a bug in the
fuse2fs.postrm script --- and from the logs, debian-edu-config doesn't
install fuse2fs.
[1] https://ci.debian.net/packages/d/debian-edu-config/testing/ppc64el/
The specific failure is very strange, and looks like it is a failure
in adding a group for polkitd:
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?!?!?
To see the full failing autopkgtest log[2], as well as a "good"
autopkgtest run[3], I've included links to them here.
[2] https://ci.debian.net/packages/d/debian-edu-config/testing/ppc64el/61390462/
[3] https://ci.debian.net/packages/d/debian-edu-config/testing/ppc64el/61375791/
As near as I can tell, the failing chown for an invalid group that was
*just* created two lines earlier in the long has nothing to do with
e2fsprogs, and from looking at the test artifacts the only *other*
difference other than the newer version of e2fsprogs is a different
version of debianutils:
diff -ru art-bad/testbed-packages art-good/testbed-packages
--- art-bad/testbed-packages 2025-06-12 17:54:09
+++ art-good/testbed-packages 2025-06-10 06:47:39
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
dbus-user-session 1.16.2-2
debconf 1.5.91
debian-archive-keyring 2025.1
-debianutils 5.23.1
+debianutils 5.22
dialog 1.3-20250116-1
diffutils 1:3.10-4
dpkg 1.22.20
.... but i don't see how debianutils could make a difference, either.
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?
Many thanks!!!
- Ted
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