Re: [oe-core][PATCHv2] xuser-account: convert to standard-user-account

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

On Wed Jun 17, 2026 at 5:58 PM CEST, Mathieu Dubois-Briand wrote:
> On Tue Jun 16, 2026 at 8:25 PM CEST, rs 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 also adds a class and a variable to allow recipes to assert that
>> the user is in requested groups.
>>
>> 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,
>
> Thanks, it looks better now.
>
> Yet we have some test failures:
>
> 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', '192.168.7.2', '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_wayland_info: FAILED (0.47s)
> RESULTS - weston.WestonTest.test_weston_can_initialize_new_wayland_compositor: FAILED (0.27s)
> RESULTS - weston.WestonTest.test_weston_running: FAILED (0.73s)
>
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/25/builds/3950
>
> Also we have a failing selftest:
>
> 2026-06-17 11:32:17,460 - oe-selftest - INFO - incompatible_lic.NoGPL3InImagesTests.test_core_image_full_cmdline_weston (subunit.RemotedTestCase)
> 2026-06-17 11:32:17,465 - oe-selftest - INFO -  ... FAIL
> ...
> ERROR: weston-init-1.0-r0 do_package_write_rpm: File /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-fedora/build/build-st-953747/tmp/work/qemux86_64-poky-linux/weston-init/1.0/recipe-sysroot/etc/passwd doesn't exist in sysroot!
> ...
> File: '/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-fedora/build/layers/openembedded-core/meta/classes-global/package_rpm.bbclass', lineno: 202, function: get_attr
>      0198:            def get_attr(path):
>      0199:                stat_f = os.stat(rootpath + "/" + path, follow_symlinks=False)
>      0200:                mode = stat.S_IMODE(stat_f.st_mode)
>      0201:                try:
>  *** 0202:                    owner = pwd.getpwuid(stat_f.st_uid).pw_name
>      0203:                except Exception as e:
>      0204:                    filename = d.getVar('RECIPE_SYSROOT') + '/etc/passwd'
>      0205:                    if os.path.exists(filename):
>      0206:                        bb.error("Content of /etc/passwd in sysroot:\n{}".format(
> Exception: KeyError: 'getpwuid(): uid not found: 1000'
>
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/23/builds/4139
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/35/builds/4061
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/48/builds/3911
>
> Can you have a look at the issue?
>
> Thanks,
> Mathieu

Sorry, we also have a dependency issue in the reproducibility test:

2026-06-17 12:32:19,348 - 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)
2026-06-17 12:32:19,348 - 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
2026-06-17 12:32:19,348 - 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_15.0.1.bb RDEPENDS on or otherwise requires it)
2026-06-17 12:32:19,348 - oe-selftest - INFO -       No eligible RPROVIDERs exist for 'weston-init'
2026-06-17 12:32:19,348 - oe-selftest - INFO -       NOTE: Runtime target 'weston-init' is unbuildable, removing...
2026-06-17 12:32:19,348 - oe-selftest - INFO -       Missing or unbuildable dependency chain was: ['weston-init']
2026-06-17 12:32:19,349 - oe-selftest - INFO -       NOTE: Runtime target 'packagegroup-core-weston' is unbuildable, removing...
2026-06-17 12:32:19,349 - oe-selftest - INFO -       Missing or unbuildable dependency chain was: ['packagegroup-core-weston', 'weston-init']
2026-06-17 12:32:19,349 - oe-selftest - INFO -       NOTE: Runtime target 'core-image-weston' is unbuildable, removing...
2026-06-17 12:32:19,349 - oe-selftest - INFO -       Missing or unbuildable dependency chain was: ['core-image-weston', 'packagegroup-core-weston', 'weston-init']
2026-06-17 12:32:19,349 - oe-selftest - INFO -       NOTE: Runtime target 'weston-xwayland' is unbuildable, removing...
2026-06-17 12:32:19,349 - oe-selftest - INFO -       Missing or unbuildable dependency chain was: ['weston-xwayland', 'weston-init']

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/37/builds/4185

Thanks,
Mathieu

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