Re: [PATCH 1/1] Fstab: Fix xattrs not being maintained on fstab file when using wic fstab update funtionalities

["Mathieu Dubois-Briand" <mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com>]

On Fri Oct 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM CEST, dani.barra25 wrote:
> From: Daniel Andrade <dani.barra25@gmail.com>
>
> The wic fstab generation capability was removing the xattrs of the /etc/fstab, possibly rendering the produced image unusable in some case (e.g.: SELinux enforced on a read-only rootfs).
> The file appears as unlabeled no matter the fstype chosen.
> To bypass this, some late procedures done on ext* and msdos fstype have been removed and all the fstab logic was passed to rootfs.py.
> On this one, the idea is to still use the install command, but in this case, executed outside the pseudo environment. After the file as sucessfully been place, the idea was to check again for inconsistencies
> in the database (now the fstab inode is different) and force it to rebuild with the correct inode, ensure fstab inode is correctly set on all the tables, including the xattrs one.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Andrade <dani.barra25@gmail.com>
> ---

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the new version. It looks like this one is now breaking
wic.Wic.test_exclude_path and wic.Wic.test_include_path tests:

2025-10-19 07:55:18,010 - oe-selftest - INFO - wic.Wic.test_exclude_path (subunit.RemotedTestCase)
2025-10-19 07:55:18,011 - oe-selftest - INFO -  ... FAIL
...
AssertionError: Command 'wic create temp.wks -e core-image-minimal -o /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-debian/build/build-st-3133304/wic-tmp' returned non-zero exit status 1:
...
ERROR: _exec_cmd: export PATH=/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-debian/build/build-st-3133304/tmp/work/x86-64-v3-poky-linux/wic-tools/1.0/recipe-sysroot-native/sbin:/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-debian/build/build-st-3133304/tmp/work/x86-64-v3-poky-linux/wic-tools/1.0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/sbin:/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-debian/build/build-st-3133304/tmp/work/x86-64-v3-poky-linux/wic-tools/1.0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin:/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-debian/build/build-st-3133304/tmp/work/x86-64-v3-poky-linux/wic-tools/1.0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin/x86_64-poky-linux:/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-debian/build/build-st-3133304/tmp/work/x86-64-v3-poky-linux/wic-tools/1.0/recipe-sysroot-native/bin:/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-debian/build/build-st-3133304/tmp/hosttools:$PATH;export PSEUDO_PREFIX=/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-debian/build/build-st-3133304/tmp/work/x86-64-v3-poky-linux/wic-tools/1.0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr;export PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR=/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-debian/build/build-st-3133304/wic-tmp/tmp.wic.dhlnwwia/pseudo1;export PSEUDO_PASSWD=/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-debian/build/build-st-3133304/wic-tmp/tmp.wic.dhlnwwia/rootfs1;export PSEUDO_NOSYMLINKEXP=1;/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-debian/build/build-st-3133304/tmp/sysroots-components/x86_64/pseudo-native/usr/bin/pseudo  -B  returned '1' instead of 0
output: PRAGMA journal_mode = OFF;: database is locked
PRAGMA synchronous = OFF;: database is locked
Failed: database is locked
Error getting 'logs.db' database.
PRAGMA journal_mode = OFF;: database is locked
PRAGMA synchronous = OFF;: database is locked
Failed: database is locked
Error getting 'files.db' database.
error during load from disk: database is locked
pdb_files: database error.
Couldn't start file list, can't scan.
db cleanup for server shutdown, 07:55:17.956
memory-to-file backup complete, 07:55:17.956.
db cleanup finished, 07:55:17.956
considering table files
considering table xattrs
considering table migrations

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/35/builds/2574

Can you have a look at these errors?

Thanks,
Mathieu

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Mathieu Dubois-Briand, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com