Emerging mgetty fails, when no user "fax" exists, which is the *opposite* of bug #38969. I cannot tell if/why enewgroup/-user is not called. If I create the group and user "fax" manually, the emerge succeedes. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: emerge mgetty Actual Results: install -c -o bin -g bin -m 755 faxrunqd /var/tmp/portage/mgetty-1.1.30/image//usr/sbin install -c -o bin -g bin faxq-helper /var/tmp/portage/mgetty-1.1.30/image//usr/lib/mgetty+sendfax chown fax /var/tmp/portage/mgetty-1.1.30/image//usr/lib/mgetty+sendfax/faxq-helper chown: `fax': invalid user make[1]: *** [install] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/mgetty-1.1.30/work/mgetty-1.1.30/fax' make: *** [install.bin] Error 2 !!! ERROR: net-dialup/mgetty-1.1.30 failed. !!! Function src_install, Line 81, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) Expected Results: `emerge info` output PC #1: Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.4.25_pre7-gss-r8) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.25_pre7-gss-r8 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 distcc 2.13 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distcc sandbox userpriv usersandbox" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" USE="3dnow X aalib acpi aim alsa apache2 apm arts artswrappersuid avi berkdb bonobo cdr chroot crypt cscope cups dga directfb divx4linux encode ethereal faad fam fbcon foomaticdb freetype gd gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 icq imagemagick imap imlib jabber java jikes joystick jpeg justify kde ldap libg++ libwww linguas_de log4j mad mikmod mmx mng mono motif mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mozxmlterm mpeg mplayer msn music mysql nagios-dns nagios-ntp nagios-ping nagios-ssh ncurses nls nvidia offensive oggvorbis ooo-kde opengl oscar oss pam pcap pcre pda pdflib perl pic pie png python qt quicktime readline samba scanner sdl slang snmp spell ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype type1 usb video_cards_nvidia videos vim-with-x wmf x86 xinerama xml2 xmms xosd xv zlib" `emerge info` output PC #2: Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.4.25_pre7-gss-r8) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.25_pre7-gss-r8 i686 Pentium II (Klamath) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 distcc 2.13 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -mmmx -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -mmmx -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distcc sandbox" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="apache2 apm berkdb chroot crypt curl fax foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gtk2 imagemagick imap imlib isdn java jpeg justify ldap libg++ libwww mmx mysql ncurses nls pam pcre pdflib perl php png python readline regexp samba slang snmp ssl tcpd truetype x86 xml2 zlib"
I can verify this. Only after adding user and group "fax" emerging works.
I have verified this as well. After I added the user and group, it was happy. But I hope my random guess for a user and group IDs is OK and doesn't conflict with anything else.
Created attachment 39606 [details, diff] mgetty-1.1.30-r1.patch corrected mgetty-1.1.30-r1.ebuild
added patch to -r2
*** Bug 69717 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
