Devuan bug report logs - #548
eudev: postinst fails when kvm group present

Package: eudev; Reported by: Meeuwissen Olaf <[email protected]>; Done: [email protected]; Maintainer for eudev is Devuan Dev Team <[email protected]>.

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Subject: #548: fixed in src:eudev version 3.2.9-9
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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2021 18:15:18 +0000
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Version: 3.2.9-9

Source package eudev (3.2.9-9) added to Devuan suite unstable.

This closes bug report 548.

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Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 13:49:24 +0100
Source: eudev
Architecture: source
Version: 3.2.9-9
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Devuan Dev Team <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Svante Signell <[email protected]>
Closes: 527 538 548
Changes:
 eudev (3.2.9-9) unstable; urgency=medium
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   * debian/rules: Add --bindir=/bin to CONFFLAGS to fix path in 64-btrfs.rules.
     Problem found upstream: https://bugs.gentoo.org/739268 (Closes: #527, #538)
   * debian/eudev.postinst: Fix postinst when input, kvm or render groups, with
     gid >= 1000 are present. Solution proposed by Bob Proulx <[email protected]>
     (Closes: #548)
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Subject: Re: [devuan-dev] bug#548: #548: Cannot reproduce
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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 08:52:54 +0900
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Hi,

Svante Signell writes:

> On Sun, 2021-02-21 at 23:00 +1100, Ralph Ronnquist wrote:
>> You'll need to make sure the kvm group has a gid > 1000.

Mostly correct.  My original report mentioned I had a regular group as
opposed to a system group.  The exact ranges for these are customizable
but the defaults are such that regular groups get 1000-60000.
BTW, the defaults are in /etc/login.defs.  You're looking for GID_MIN
and GID_MAX.  The system group values, SYS_GID_MIN and SYS_GID_MAX are
mentioned in comments.

>> E.g. edit /etc/group and change the kvm line from say 106 to 10666,
>> then
>>
>> # apt-get install --reinstall eudev
>>
>> fails with:
>> ----
>> The group `kvm' already exists and is not a system group. Exiting.
>> dpkg: error processing package eudev (--configure):
>>  installed eudev package post-installation script subprocess returned
>> error exit status 1
>> Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.5-2) ...
>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>>  eudev
>> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> Problem is if non-system groups: input, kvm and render should be
> allowed or not. The whole idea of system group names is that these
> names should be reserved?? WDYT?

I also mentioned this possibility, that kvm might have to be a system
group, in my original issue but could not find any definitive list of
system groups in Debian Policy and didn't look elsewhere.

If these groups must be system groups, then I think the right thing to
do is to log the discrepancy, change the group's ID *and* reassign the
group for all file system entries that have the old ID.

For the time being, I am still using my regular kvm group, i.e. with a
GID > 1000.

Hope this helps,
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