usermod refuses to update the home directory for a user with running processes. Output a more helpful message and avoid calling die for this.
For other usermod failures, output stderr as an eerror message and die. Example output: * Failed to update user portage * This user currently has one or more running processes. * Please update this user manually with the following command: * usermod '--comment' 'System user; portage' '--home' '/var/lib/portage/home' '--shell' '/bin/bash' '--gid' 'portage' '--groups' '' portage Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/888189 Signed-off-by: Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> --- eclass/acct-user.eclass | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/eclass/acct-user.eclass b/eclass/acct-user.eclass index f8a51ebf9c6b..88d7d354c8e6 100644 --- a/eclass/acct-user.eclass +++ b/eclass/acct-user.eclass @@ -432,12 +432,30 @@ acct-user_pkg_postinst() { fi elog "Updating user ${ACCT_USER_NAME}" - if ! usermod "${opts[@]}" "${ACCT_USER_NAME}" 2>"${T}/usermod-error.log"; then - # usermod outputs a warning if unlocking the account would result in an - # empty password. Hide stderr in a text file and display it if usermod - # fails. + # usermod outputs a warning if unlocking the account would result in an + # empty password. Hide stderr in a text file and display it if usermod fails. + usermod "${opts[@]}" "${ACCT_USER_NAME}" 2>"${T}/usermod-error.log" + local status=$? + if [[ ${status} -ne 0 ]]; then cat "${T}/usermod-error.log" >&2 - die "usermod failed" + if [[ ${status} -eq 8 ]]; then + # usermod refused to update the home directory + # for a uid with active processes. + eerror "Failed to update user ${ACCT_USER_NAME}" + eerror "This user currently has one or more running processes." + eerror "Please update this user manually with the following command:" + + # Surround opts with quotes. + # With bash-5 (EAPI 8), we can use "${opts[@]@Q}" instead. + local q="'" + local optsq=( "${opts[@]/#/$q}" ) + optsq=( "${optsq[@]/%/$q}" ) + + eerror " usermod ${optsq[@]} ${ACCT_USER_NAME}" + else + eerror "$(<"${T}/usermod-error.log")" + die "usermod failed" + fi fi } -- 2.41.0
