Hello, On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:57:16AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >Hello, > >Please keep 17786@debbugs.gnu.org Cc’d. > >Tomas Cech skribis: > >> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 01:52:36PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >>>Tomas Cech skribis: >>> >>>> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 09:48:39AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >>>>>Hello, >>>>> >>>>>Tomas Cech skribis: >>>>> >>>>>> guix package: error: build failed: the group `"guix-builders"' specified in >>>>>> `build-users-group' does not exist >>>>>> >>>>>> # grep guix /etc/passwd >>>>>> guix-builder1:x:61:479:Guix builder 1:/var/empty:/sbin/nologin >>>>>> guix-builder2:x:62:479:Guix builder 2:/var/empty:/sbin/nologin >>>>>> guix-builder3:x:63:479:Guix builder 3:/var/empty:/sbin/nologin >>>>>> guix-builder4:x:64:479:Guix builder 4:/var/empty:/sbin/nologin >>>>>> guix-builder5:x:65:479:Guix builder 5:/var/empty:/sbin/nologin >>>>>> # grep guix /etc/group >>>>>> guix-builders:x:479:guix-builder1,guix-builder2,guix-builder3,guix-builder4,guix-builder5 >>>>>> >>>>>> Nothing seems to be obviously wrong, but guix ends with this error. >>>>> >>>>>Hmm, what does “getent group guix-builders” return? >>>>>And “getent passwd guix-builder1”? >>>> >>>> # getent group guix-builders >>>> guix-builders:x:479:guix-builder1,guix-builder2,guix-builder3,guix-builder4,guix-builder5 >>>> # getent passwd guix-builder1 >>>> guix-builder1:x:61:479:Guix builder 1:/var/empty:/sbin/nologin >>> >>>So that’s all good. >>> >>>The daemon simply does that (build.cc): >>> >>>--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >>> /* Get the members of the build-users-group. */ >>> struct group * gr = getgrnam(settings.buildUsersGroup.c_str()); >>> if (!gr) >>> throw Error(format("the group `%1%' specified in `build-users-group' does not exist") >>> % settings.buildUsersGroup); >>>--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- >>> >>>Can you try getgrnam("guix-builders") in C or some other language (from >>>Guile: (getgrnam "guix-builders")) ? >> >> scheme@(guile-user)> (getgrnam "guix-builders") >> $2 = #("guix-builders" "x" 479 ("guix-builder1" "guix-builder2" "guix-builder3" "guix-builder4" "guix-builder5")) > >Then there’s something weird: Guile’s getgrnam directly corresponds to >libc’s getgrnam(3), which is what guix-daemon uses in the snippet above. > >Oh, I see the error message you gave above reads: > > the group `"guix-builders"' > >Note the extra double quotes. > >Could it be that the script that launches guix-daemon does something >that amounts to: > > guix-daemon '--build-users-group="guix-builders"' > >That is, it leaves the double quotes as is in the argument? It seems to be that case. Thank you and sorry for the noise... Best regards, Tomas