Bug 43916

Summary:	Ebuild fails to add user "apache", breaks server startup and install
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	The Janitor <drfixit>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Web Application Packages Maintainers <web-apps>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major
Priority:	High
Version:	1.4
Hardware:	Sparc
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description The Janitor 2004-03-06 14:43:39 UTC

the install scripts misses the failed user and reported 'success'.

From the build:

>emerge apache-2.0.48-r1
...
>>> /var/www/localhost/icons/world2.gif
>>> /var/www/localhost/icons/world2.png
>>> /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/
>>> /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/printenv
>>> /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/test-cgi
install: invalid user `apache'
 * 
 * Generating self-signed test certificate in /etc/apache2/conf/ssl...



From startup:
 * Mounting network filesystems...  [ ok ]
 * Starting apache2...apache2: bad user name apache  [ !! ]


unmerging and restalling (ugh, shades of windoze!!)  fails.

Seems like no one tested this on a fresh install, or that there is a prerequisite missing in the ebuild...or maybe only games work on Gentoo.

Comment 1 Eric Brown 2004-03-06 21:02:30 UTC

does 2.0.48-r2 or r3 or r4 install properly?

Comment 2 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-03-10 12:03:56 UTC

fixed in eclass