Hi all, recently, when trying to install nagios-core (4.5.8), I was met with a failed ebuild. The relevant message is: `/usr/bin/install: invalid user 'nagios'`. Mind you, I've never installed nagios on this system. The fix was simple: create the 'nagios' user with the following command: `useradd -m nagios` After this, the nagios-core and nagios packages installed without any further issues. I don't know if it could be a one-off issue, if it's a problem only my system is facing, etc. In any case, I'm reporting this for posterity. COMMON_FLAGS="-O2 -march=rocketlake -mtune=rocketlake" CFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}" CXXFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}" FCFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}" FFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}" LDFLAGS="-fuse-ld=bfd -O2"
user 'nagios' should be installed during emerge, please post output of following cmd: # ls -d /var/db/pkg/acct-*/nagios-* /var/db/pkg/acct-group/nagios-0-r3 /var/db/pkg/acct-user/nagios-0-r3 # grep acct /var/db/pkg/net-analyzer/nagios-core-4.5.*/*DEPEND /var/db/pkg/net-analyzer/nagios-core-4.5.1/BDEPEND:acct-group/nagios acct-user/nagios virtual/mailx dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= app-arch/unzip virtual/pkgconfig /var/db/pkg/net-analyzer/nagios-core-4.5.1/RDEPEND:acct-group/nagios acct-user/nagios virtual/mailx dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= dev-libs/libltdl:0 media-libs/gd[jpeg,png] app-vim/nagios-syntax >=sys-libs/glibc-2.40-r5
(In reply to Zhixu Liu from comment #1) > user 'nagios' should be installed during emerge, please post output of > following cmd: > > # ls -d /var/db/pkg/acct-*/nagios-* > /var/db/pkg/acct-group/nagios-0-r3 /var/db/pkg/acct-user/nagios-0-r3 Same as yours: /var/db/pkg/acct-group/nagios-0-r3 /var/db/pkg/acct-user/nagios-0-r3 > # grep acct /var/db/pkg/net-analyzer/nagios-core-4.5.*/*DEPEND > /var/db/pkg/net-analyzer/nagios-core-4.5.1/BDEPEND:acct-group/nagios > acct-user/nagios virtual/mailx dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= app-arch/unzip > virtual/pkgconfig > /var/db/pkg/net-analyzer/nagios-core-4.5.1/RDEPEND:acct-group/nagios > acct-user/nagios virtual/mailx dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= dev-libs/libltdl:0 > media-libs/gd[jpeg,png] app-vim/nagios-syntax >=sys-libs/glibc-2.40-r5 Looks like it's OK? /var/db/pkg/net-analyzer/nagios-core-4.5.8/BDEPEND:acct-group/nagios acct-user/nagios virtual/mailx dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= app-arch/unzip virtual/pkgconfig /var/db/pkg/net-analyzer/nagios-core-4.5.8/RDEPEND:acct-group/nagios acct-user/nagios virtual/mailx dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= dev-libs/libltdl:0 media-libs/gd[jpeg,png] >=sys-libs/glibc-2.39-r9
emerge --info: Portage 3.0.66.1 (python 3.12.4-final-0, default/linux/amd64/23.0/split-usr, gcc-14, glibc-2.39-r9, 6.12.8-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-6.12.8-gentoo-x86_64-11th_Gen_Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-11400_@_2.60GHz-with-glibc2.39 KiB Mem: 16277328 total, 655564 free KiB Swap: 8388604 total, 8388604 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Head commit of repository gentoo: 807710c480fc77ca494fc0166915521e7ded35c5 Timestamp of repository guru: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 14:33:26 +0000 Head commit of repository guru: 1ca117df78bec56d8d3d9f9a1e321fa5db75eea3 Timestamp of repository librewolf: Sun, 19 Jan 2025 10:03:39 +0000 Head commit of repository librewolf: fb7e1e01242a06cc3e7ee79c018ff3a0f279a01c Timestamp of repository php-overlay: Tue, 31 Dec 2024 16:03:18 +0000 Head commit of repository php-overlay: e2db660797cff76b5299c74156d0cbd9389633f1 sh bash 5.2_p26-r5 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.42 p3) 2.42.0 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looks like acct-user/nagios not installed as expected? do you have the log file？ if no, try remove user nagios, then reemerge by `emerge -Ov1e acct-user/nagios` then `grep nagios /etc/passwd`, user 'nagios' should be added then reemerge nagios-core to see problem still exist or not
(In reply to Zhixu Liu from comment #4) > looks like acct-user/nagios not installed as expected? do you have the log > file？ Unfortunately not. > if no, try remove user nagios, then reemerge by `emerge -Ov1e > acct-user/nagios` > then `grep nagios /etc/passwd`, user 'nagios' should be added > then reemerge nagios-core to see problem still exist or not $ grep nagios /etc/passwd nagios:x:1008:1009::/home/nagios:/bin/bash $ usermod -rG nagios my-user $ userdel -f nagios $ groupdel -f nagios $ grep nagios /etc/passwd # no results $ emerge -a acct-{user,group}/nagios $ grep nagios /etc/passwd nagios:x:436:436:System user; nagios:/dev/null:/sbin/nologin That seems to have done the trick, cheers! I don't know why, despite showing up as installed (both acct-user/nagios and acct-group/nagios), it threw that error. Weird.
one possible reason is 'nagios' deleted so I'm closing this, feel free to reopen if found more logs etc...
