Bug#1077876: autopkgtest: autopkgtest-virt-podman: Fails with create-normal-user: Unable to generate a new username (tried $tries times)

[Paul Gevers]

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Hi Reinhard,

I'm puzzled.

On 03-08-2024 23:29, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Package: autopkgtest
> Version: 5.37

On 03-08-2024 23:58, Reinhard Tartler wrote:

diff --git a/setup-commands/create-normal-user 
b/setup-commands/create-normal-user
index 0d0e828..9d66694 100755
--- a/setup-commands/create-normal-user
+++ b/setup-commands/create-normal-user
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ create () {
          adduser \
              --disabled-login \
              --gecos 'Temporary autopkgtest user,,,' \
-            "$user" 2>&1
+            "$user" 2>&1 | grep -v 'send message failed: Operation not 
permitted'

Paul

This "2>&1" was added in 5.38 to prevent the problem you're seeing. As you see it redirects stderr to stdout, while the original report says it fails because of output on stderr (which matches 5.37 behavior). Does the 2>&1 not work? You're original report was against 5.37, your patch is against 5.38.

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