Build fails (repeatably) with install -m 644 pwfile.example "/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/mosquitto-1.6.12/image/etc/mosquitto/pwfile.example" install -m 644 pskfile.example "/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/mosquitto-1.6.12/image/etc/mosquitto/pskfile.example" chown: invalid user: ‘mosquitto:mosquitto’ * ERROR: app-misc/mosquitto-1.6.12::gentoo failed (install phase): * fowners failed * * If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info '=app-misc/mosquitto-1.6.12::gentoo'`, * the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv '=app-misc/mosquitto-1.6.12::gentoo'`. * The complete build log is located at '/var/log/portage/app-misc:mosquitto-1.6.12:20201201-211550.log'. OK, so do I have that user / group? Portage thinks I do: $ emerge -pv acct-user/mosquitto acct-group/mosquitto Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] acct-group/mosquitto-0::gentoo 0 KiB [ebuild R ] acct-user/mosquitto-0::gentoo 0 KiB but old school grep thinks not: $ grep mosquitto /etc/passwd /etc/group /etc/group:mosquitto:x:996: which is odd. This is the only acct-user package which does not have a corresponding group present: $ for dir in /var/db/pkg/acct-user/*; do just_dir=${dir##/var/db/pkg/acct-user/}; nearly_dir=${just_dir%-0}; echo -n "${nearly_dir%-1}: "; grep ${nearly_dir%-1} /etc/passwd; echo ""; done dnsmasq: dnsmasq:x:999:997:User for net-dns/dnsmasq:/dev/null:/sbin/nologin gkrellmd: gkrellmd:x:110:1009:user for gkrellm daemon:/dev/null:/sbin/nologin mail: mail:x:8:12:Mail program user:/var/spool/mail:/sbin/nologin postmaster:x:14:12:Postmaster user:/var/spool/mail:/sbin/nologin vpopmail:x:89:89::/var/vpopmail:/bin/false alias:x:200:200::/var/qmail/alias:/bin/false qmaild:x:201:200::/var/qmail:/bin/false qmaill:x:202:200::/var/qmail:/bin/false qmailp:x:203:200::/var/qmail:/bin/false qmailq:x:204:201::/var/qmail:/bin/false qmailr:x:205:201::/var/qmail:/bin/false qmails:x:206:201::/var/qmail:/bin/false man: man:x:13:15:System user; man:/dev/null:/sbin/nologin messagebus: messagebus:x:105:1000:System user; messagebus:/dev/null:/sbin/nologin mosquitto: ntp: ntp:x:123:123:user for ntp daemon:/dev/null:/sbin/nologin openvpn: openvpn:x:394:394:User for net-vpn/openvpn:/dev/null:/sbin/nologin pcap: pcap:x:377:377:User for capturing network traffic:/dev/null:/sbin/nologin pcscd: pcscd:x:47:993:A user for pcsc-lite:/dev/null:/sbin/nologin polkitd: polkitd:x:113:102:System user; polkitd:/var/lib/polkit-1:/sbin/nologin postmaster: postmaster:x:14:12:Postmaster user:/var/spool/mail:/sbin/nologin sshd: sshd:x:22:22:User for ssh:/var/empty:/sbin/nologin svn: svn:x:399:399:System user; svn:/dev/null:/sbin/nologin tss: tss:x:59:992:Trusted Software Stack for TPMs user:/dev/null:/sbin/nologin The acct-user/mosquitto-0 package does not own any files (but neither do other acct-user/* packages). I have no build log for any of the acct-user packages - which is odd, because I didn't think they were getting deleted (but I have none older than 23th Nov, so that isn't true). I re-merged acct-user/mosquitto-0 manually, and now I do have the entry in /etc/passwd, and the build completes. But how did it get into this state?
Something must have gone wrong with the initial acct-user/mosquitto installation. Could you have somehow removed the user from /etc/passwd? No clue...
