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Bug 73636 - fcron-2.0.2 emerge fails - Cannot determine root's username: try option --with-rootname=USERNAME
Summary: fcron-2.0.2 emerge fails - Cannot determine root's username: try option --wit...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Cron Team
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Reported: 2004-12-07 02:10 UTC by Christopher DeMarco
Modified: 2004-12-07 17:17 UTC (History)
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output of emerge --info (emerge-info,1.78 KB, text/plain)
2004-12-07 02:11 UTC, Christopher DeMarco 		Details
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Description Christopher DeMarco 2004-12-07 02:10:29 UTC 
configure seems to be broken "somehow".  ``emerge fcron'' fails with: 

  checking root's username... configure: error:
  Cannot determine root's username: try option --with-rootname=USERNAME


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge fcron
Actual Results:  
Cannot determine root's username: try option --with-rootname=USERNAME
Comment 1 Christopher DeMarco 2004-12-07 02:11:16 UTC 
Created attachment 45420 [details]
output of emerge --info
Comment 2 Aaron Walker (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-12-07 07:06:52 UTC 
Just out of curiousity, what is the output of 'grep ^root /etc/passwd' ?

That is what the configure script runs if --with-rootname is not specified, and for some reason it is failing (returning a non-zero value).  If it is specified, it greps for the argument, so using --with-rootname=root would still fail...
Comment 3 Christopher DeMarco 2004-12-07 17:17:55 UTC 
Well, gosh.  It seems t'other day when I was adding a user with XEmacs instead of one of those "safe" tools, I inadvertantly put a tab at the beginning of each line (don't ask me how).  So yeah, it's my fault.  Clothes ze boog.