During the installation the ebuild somewhere makes a chown foldingathome:foldingathome which fails because the group does not exist. The ebuild only creates the user. After groupadd foldingathome and emerging again, the installation worked. You can see the user creation and the error "chown: invalid group: ‘foldingathome:foldingathome’" here: * Adding user 'foldingathome' to your system ... * - Userid: 999 * - Shell: /sbin/nologin * - Home: /opt/foldingathome * - Groups: (none) * - GECOS: added by portage for foldingathome * - Creating /opt/foldingathome in / >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking fahclient_7.5.1-64bit-release.tar.bz2 to /mnt/ramdisk/portage/sci-biology/foldingathome-7.5.1/work >>> Source unpacked in /mnt/ramdisk/portage/sci-biology/foldingathome-7.5.1/work >>> Preparing source in /mnt/ramdisk/portage/sci-biology/foldingathome-7.5.1/work/fahclient_7.5.1-64bit-release ... >>> Source prepared. >>> Configuring source in /mnt/ramdisk/portage/sci-biology/foldingathome-7.5.1/work/fahclient_7.5.1-64bit-release ... >>> Source configured. >>> Compiling source in /mnt/ramdisk/portage/sci-biology/foldingathome-7.5.1/work/fahclient_7.5.1-64bit-release ... >>> Source compiled. >>> Test phase [not enabled]: sci-biology/foldingathome-7.5.1 >>> Install sci-biology/foldingathome-7.5.1 into /mnt/ramdisk/portage/sci-biology/foldingathome-7.5.1/image/ chown: invalid group: ‘foldingathome:foldingathome’ * ERROR: sci-biology/foldingathome-7.5.1::gentoo failed (install phase): * fowners failed The group is not created and the user is not member of any group as it seems.
I'm guessing this has been broken since https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/eclass/user.eclass?id=3afc0d7b8b5e90c50d66c5a845b96c33e521e6e8
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=73f5be2b2faf851c06cd57e4797f88180a39ef8b commit 73f5be2b2faf851c06cd57e4797f88180a39ef8b Author: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-03-05 04:39:56 +0000 Commit: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-03-05 04:39:56 +0000 sci-biology/foldingathome: add enewgroup Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/711418 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.79, Repoman-2.3.16 Signed-off-by: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@gentoo.org> sci-biology/foldingathome/foldingathome-7.5.1.ebuild | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
