Bug 84648

Summary:	RPM rebuilding process crashes
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Andres Becerra <anbesan>
Component:	rpm-build	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0	CC:	duchier
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Hardware:	i386
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Description Andres Becerra 2003-02-19 23:42:40 UTC

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Description of problem:
When rebuilding a large src.rpm file with 

rpmbuild --rebuild <file>

the proces prepares, compiles and installs ok the package in /var/tmp, then the creation of the binary rpm hangs with this message:

getUname: too many uid's

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.download http://www.mozart-oz.org/download/mozart-ftp/store/1.2.5-2003-02-12/mozart-1.2.5.20030212-3.src.rpm
2.rpmbuild --rebuild mozart-1.2.5.20030212-3.src.rpm

   

Actual Results:  the binary rpm generation hangs with the the message:
getUname: too many uid's

Expected Results:  It should have created mozart-1.2.5.20030212-3.i386.rpm

Additional info:

Computer: K7 Athlon 
128MB RAM

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2003-02-20 15:57:24 UTC

The message
    getUname: too many uid's
comes from execeeding an internal table of 1024
possible usernames.

I believe you have a packaging bug, no package should
need more than 1024 user4 id's.

Comment 2 Denys Duchier 2003-02-22 21:31:45 UTC

Please, reopen this bug report.  The problem that was reported NEVER occurred 
before and DOES NOT occur for everyone.  I and others have successfully 
invoked rpmbuild --rebuild on the src rpm.  Some people, however, have 
reported this getUname issue.  I believe that the problem is with rpmbuild. 
Please, DO try to reproduce the problem.  In all likelyhood, it won't happen 
for you (if it was a problem with the src rpm, it should).  I am the packager for 
this src rpm, I can work with you and make whatever additional information 
you need available.  What I cannot do, is reproduce the problem.  If I could, 
I would have tried to debug rpmbuild by building from sources and running it 
under the debugger.

Comment 3 Denys Duchier 2003-02-28 13:18:07 UTC

There IS a bug in rpm-build causing the problem:  See #85346. 
 
There seems to ALSO be a packaging problem in that the wrong uid (my name 
instead of root) gets into the src rpm.  My guess is that it is due to effect of 
login vs non-login root shell.  I don't know if that should be considered a bug 
in rpm, but it sure isn't helping.  We never had that problem before.