Subject: Re: bug#17786: group specified in `build-users-group' does not exist

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 09:48:39 +0200

Hello,

Tomas Cech <[email-masked]> skribis:

> guix package: error: build failed: the group `"guix-builders"' specified in
> `build-users-group' does not exist
>
> # grep guix /etc/passwd
> guix-builder1:x:61:479:Guix builder 1:/var/empty:/sbin/nologin
> guix-builder2:x:62:479:Guix builder 2:/var/empty:/sbin/nologin
> guix-builder3:x:63:479:Guix builder 3:/var/empty:/sbin/nologin
> guix-builder4:x:64:479:Guix builder 4:/var/empty:/sbin/nologin
> guix-builder5:x:65:479:Guix builder 5:/var/empty:/sbin/nologin
> # grep guix /etc/group
> guix-builders:x:479:guix-builder1,guix-builder2,guix-builder3,guix-builder4,guix-builder5
>
> Nothing seems to be obviously wrong, but guix ends with this error.

Hmm, what does “getent group guix-builders” return?
And “getent passwd guix-builder1”?

How did you create the accounts?

Thanks for the report,
Ludo’.