Hi, I played a bit around to investigate the problem. What I see is:
- inside pbuilder, after installing the build dependencies and after patching the sources, dh_clean runs as root [env says $SUDO_USER=tews and $USER=root; id says uid=0(root) gid=0(root)] - Later the configure script of the package runs not as root. At line 2871 in configure, where the root test is, id says uid=56789(pbuilder) gid=56789(pbuilder) groups=56789(pbuilder) however, env still says $SUDO_USER=tews and $USER=root. The configure script runs `whoami` only if $USER is empty. Therefore configure believes $USER=root and aborts. For me this looks like pbuilder is not setting the environment correctly when changing to the non-root user. Or the configure script is wrong in taken the contents of $USER. Gruss, Hendrik PS. To reproduce - pbuilder create - pbuilder login --save-after-login - in the pbuilder shell: useradd -m -u 56789 pbuilder - put "BUILDUSERNAME=pbuilder" into /etc/pbuilderrc - build package with git-buildpackage --git-builder=pdebuild -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org