Mock "Could not find useradd in chroot, maybe the install failed?"

[Jeroen Janssen]

Well,

I removed mock & my modified /etc/mock config files, reinstalled mock
and now I can run mock without any problems. So it seems I probably
misconfigured mock somehow.

Best regards,

Jeroen Janssen

On 1/29/07, Clark Williams <williams at redhat.com> wrote:
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> Jeroen Janssen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have been trying to build F7Test1 for a couple of days now, but I
> > seem to be doing something wrong. Since I'm running a FC6 (latest
> > updates) system, I need to run pungi within mock in order to generate
> > the F7Test1 installation media.
> >
> > However, I can't seem to get mock to work, so I cannot build the
> > installation media.
> >
> > As a test, I'm running the following:
> > mock --debug -r fedora-6-i386-core init
> >
> > and the latest part of the output is:
> >
> > DEBUG: Executing /usr/sbin/mock-helper yum --installroot
> > /var/lib/mock/fedora-6-i386-core/root update
> > Could not find useradd in chroot, maybe the install failed?
> > ending
> >
> > I get the same error when trying to setup a mock for fedora-devel.
> >
> > This is with mock 0.6.10-1.fc6, with the default mock configfiles.
> >
> > Anyone here having the same problem, or is it just me?
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Jeroen Janssen
>
> Well, I was going to say that it might not be in the path, since
> mock-helper doesn't inherit a path, but /usr/sbin is in that path and
> that's usually where useradd is found.
>
> After a failure, try running :
>
> mock -r fedora-6-i386-core --no-clean shell
>
> and poke around in the chroot. Is useradd actually there?
>
> Clark
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