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

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

On Sat Jun 20, 2026 at 2:51 PM CEST, Mathieu Dubois-Briand wrote:
> 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

Oh and I believe an error we already had before for no-x11:
failed to create display: No such file or directory

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/25/builds/3976

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Mathieu Dubois-Briand, Bootlin
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