Re: [oe-core][PATCHv3] xuser-account: convert to standard-user-account

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

On Thu Jun 18, 2026 at 9:00 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>
> ---
> v2:
> 	- Add seat to the default STANDARD_USER_SYSTEM_GROUPS var
> v3:
> 	- Add STANDARD_USER_GROUPS_EXPECT to indicate what groups are
> 	  expected to be provided by other projects
> 	- Set user UID and GID as 1000 in the static tracking files
> 	- Update the weston test's user name
> ---

Hi Randolph,

Thanks for the new version.

I believe we still have some failure:

2026-06-20 11:01:50,077 - oe-selftest - INFO - incompatible_lic.NoGPL3InImagesTests.test_core_image_full_cmdline_weston (subunit.RemotedTestCase)
2026-06-20 11:01:50,080 - oe-selftest - INFO -  ... FAIL
...
ERROR: weston-init-1.0-r0 do_package_write_rpm: File /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-debian/build/build-st-4070494/tmp/work/qemux86_64-poky-linux/weston-init/1.0/recipe-sysroot/etc/passwd doesn't exist in sysroot!
ERROR: weston-init-1.0-r0 do_package_write_rpm: Error executing a python function in exec_func_python() autogenerated:
...
Exception: KeyError: 'getpwuid(): uid not found: 1000'

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/35/builds/4105
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/48/builds/3936

Can you have a look at the issue?

Thanks,
Mathieu

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Mathieu Dubois-Briand, Bootlin
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