Bug 2157669 - Failure during useradd or groupadd does not print enough details
Summary: Failure during useradd or groupadd does not print enough details
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: shadow-utils
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
high
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Assignee: Alexey Tikhonov
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: 2149036
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Reported: 2023-01-02 14:59 UTC by Petr Menšík
Modified: 2026-07-22 14:20 UTC (History)
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Description Petr Menšík 2023-01-02 14:59:35 UTC 
Description of problem:
In bug #2149036 anaconda team reported failure during install. It fails to add group from %pre script. Because I am not able to step it interactively, I am just guessing what might be the cause of it. I think if file open fails, it should print also reason given by errno.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
shadow-utils-4.13-3.fc38.x86_64

How reproducible:
not straightforward, but reliable

Steps to Reproduce:
1. make groupadd fail
2. printed error message should make it clear what is the cause.
3.

Actual results:
groupadd: cannot open /etc/group
useradd: group 'unbound' does not exist

Expected results:
Also a reason should be printed. I expect it to be EPERM or ENOENT, but I should not need to guess.

Additional info:
Details in bug #2149036 comment #9.
Comment 1 Fedora Admin user for bugzilla script actions 2026-07-22 14:20:11 UTC 
This package has changed maintainer in Fedora. Reassigning to the new maintainer of this component.
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