Bug 73636

Summary:	fcron-2.0.2 emerge fails - Cannot determine root's username: try option --with-rootname=USERNAME
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Christopher DeMarco <cdemarco>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Cron Team <cron-bugs+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	output of emerge --info

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.