http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1155687 http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1155687#c4 Thorsten Kukuk changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC|kukuk@suse.com | --- Comment #4 from Thorsten Kukuk --- (In reply to Andrei Borzenkov from comment #3)

(In reply to Neil Rickert from comment #2)

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Boot messages indicating missing users "sddm", "polkitd" and several others.

Bug is actually rather interesting. Following happens

1. Live system has most users in its /etc/passwd. 2. Scripts used by various system-user-* packages basically do

getent user || useradd user

All packages creating users are doing this.

3. During installation /run from Live system is bind-mounted on target /mnt/run (where /mnt is root of system being installed). This makes nscd socket available to scripts run by rpm which are chrooted to /mnt.

Why do we run nscd in such a case? doesn't make any sense.

4. So during installation getent contacts nscd *in Live system*, and gets positive answer. As result, user creation is skipped.

Possible fixes are

1. Do not use getent, parse /etc/passwd directly

This "fixes" only your very special use case and breaks all default installations. Beside that this would mean touching all packages creating users. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.