Re: [oe-core][RFC] xuser-account: convert to standard-user-account

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

On Tue Feb 10, 2026 at 1:25 AM CET, Randolph Sapp via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> From: Randolph Sapp <rs@ti.com>
>
> Change this single xuser account template into a generic
> standard-user-account that uses distro level variables for
> configuration.
>
> This allows for seamless configuration of multiple out-of-box scripts
> and tests across layers without having to implicitly hope that the
> username or groups haven't been changed by a bbappend or recipe
> override.
>
> This was proposed specifically to remove some issues highlighted in:
> https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/message/230665
>
> Signed-off-by: Randolph Sapp <rs@ti.com>
> ---

Hi Randolph,

I know this is still an RFC, but it went into by weekend batch of RFC
patches tested on the autobuilder.

A note first: this was tested without your other display manager series.
I hope there is no dependency.

So far we had the following issues:

AssertionError: ssh exited with status '255' for command '['ssh', '-l', 'root', '-o', 'ServerAliveCountMax=2', '-o', 'ServerAliveInterval=30', '-o', 'UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null', '-o', 'StrictHostKeyChecking=no', '-o', 'LogLevel=ERROR', '192.168.7.8', 'export PATH=/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin; export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/`id -u weston`; export WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-1; wayland-info']': this is likely an SSH failure
id: unknown user weston
failed to create display: No such file or directory
...
RESULTS - weston.WestonTest.test_weston_running: FAILED (0.80s)

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/25/builds/3189
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/23/builds/3316
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/35/builds/3214
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/48/builds/3090

And a second one:

2026-02-14 17:59:08,803 - oe-selftest - INFO -       ERROR: Nothing PROVIDES 'standard-user-account' (but /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible/build/layers/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-graphics/wayland/weston-init.bb DEPENDS on or otherwise requires it)
2026-02-14 17:59:08,803 - oe-selftest - INFO -       standard-user-account was skipped: Recipe standard-user-account, package standard-user-account: system groupname "disk" does not have a static ID defined. Add disk to one of these files: /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible/build/build-st/meta-selftest/files/static-group
2026-02-14 17:59:08,803 - oe-selftest - INFO -       ERROR: Nothing RPROVIDES 'weston-init' (but /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible/build/layers/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-graphics/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-weston.bb, /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible/build/layers/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-graphics/wayland/weston-init.bb, /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible/build/layers/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-graphics/wayland/weston_14.0.2.bb RDEPENDS on or otherwise requires it)
2026-02-14 17:59:08,803 - oe-selftest - INFO -       No eligible RPROVIDERs exist for 'weston-init'
2026-02-14 17:59:08,803 - oe-selftest - INFO -       NOTE: Runtime target 'weston-init' is unbuildable, removing...
2026-02-14 17:59:08,803 - oe-selftest - INFO -       Missing or unbuildable dependency chain was: ['weston-init']

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/37/builds/3355

Thanks,
Mathieu

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