Re: [OE-core] why does useradd.bbclass loop retrying its commands?

2014-11-15 Thread Mark Hatle
On 11/14/14, 11:37 PM, Peter A. Bigot wrote: The useradd, groupadd, and groupmems commands in useradd.bbclass are executed in a loop with up to 10 failed attempts before they give up. This appears to have always been the case, as long as that file has been present. If multiple recipes/packages

Re: [OE-core] why does useradd.bbclass loop retrying its commands?

2014-11-15 Thread Peter A. Bigot
On 11/15/2014 10:22 AM, Richard Purdie wrote: On Fri, 2014-11-14 at 23:37 -0600, Peter A. Bigot wrote: The useradd, groupadd, and groupmems commands in useradd.bbclass are executed in a loop with up to 10 failed attempts before they give up. This appears to have always been the case, as long as

Re: [OE-core] why does useradd.bbclass loop retrying its commands?

2014-11-15 Thread Richard Purdie
On Fri, 2014-11-14 at 23:37 -0600, Peter A. Bigot wrote: > The useradd, groupadd, and groupmems commands in useradd.bbclass are > executed in a loop with up to 10 failed attempts before they give up. > This appears to have always been the case, as long as that file has been > present. > > Is t

[OE-core] why does useradd.bbclass loop retrying its commands?

2014-11-14 Thread Peter A. Bigot
The useradd, groupadd, and groupmems commands in useradd.bbclass are executed in a loop with up to 10 failed attempts before they give up. This appears to have always been the case, as long as that file has been present. Is there any reason why an initial failed attempt to execute one of the