Re: [PATCH V5 0/2] shadow: upgrade from 4.1.4.3 to 4.2.1

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, 2014-07-17 at 15:53 +0800, Chen Qi wrote:
> The following changes since commit 846bc50fde11bbb36c8eb5b2e3ae6bb644c037f3:
> 
>   ltp: use "foreign" automake strictness (2014-07-16 10:27:16 +0100)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core-contrib ChenQi/shadow-4.2.1
>   http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded-core-contrib/log/?h=ChenQi/shadow-4.2.1
> 
> Chen Qi (2):
>   shadow: upgrade from 4.1.4.3 to 4.2.1
>   oeqa: fix return status in pam.py to match shadow-4.2.1

I think but am not 100% sure this has introduced another regression:

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/main/builders/nightly-oecore/builds/177

The issue is that X doesn't start in oe-core built images. It does work
correctly in poky. The issue is that the /etc/init.d/xserver-nodm script
returns:

root@qemuarm:/etc# /etc/init.d/xserver-nodm start
Starting Xserver
su: applet not found

or to be more specific:

root@qemuarm:/etc# su -l -c '/etc/X11/Xserver&' xuser
su: applet not found


The poky images appear to work since we install bash. If you remove bash
from packagegroup-core-device-devel.bb, the poky images will show the
same error.

I think this is something to do with the none-suid busybox binary not
containing su support, but why su is being called there, I don't know.
su is being provided by shadow in the image. If I make su provided by
busybox the problem also goes away.

Cheers,

Richard