Hi,

I never got any response to my message (until now). So AFAIK I solved the problem with the following patch:

diff --git a/scripts/lib/wic/partition.py b/scripts/lib/wic/partition.py
index 84fe85d62b..66ab757aec 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/wic/partition.py
+++ b/scripts/lib/wic/partition.py
@@ -204,15 +204,10 @@ class Partition():

         Currently handles ext2/3/4, btrfs and vfat.
         """
- p_prefix = os.environ.get("PSEUDO_PREFIX", "%s/usr" % native_sysroot)
-        p_localstatedir = os.environ.get("PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR",
- "%s/../pseudo" % get_bitbake_var("IMAGE_ROOTFS"))
-        p_passwd = os.environ.get("PSEUDO_PASSWD", rootfs_dir)
+        pseudo = "export PSEUDO_PREFIX=%s/usr;" % native_sysroot
+ pseudo += "export PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR=%s/../pseudo;" % self.rootfs_dir
+        pseudo += "export PSEUDO_PASSWD=%s;" % rootfs_dir
         p_nosymlinkexp = os.environ.get("PSEUDO_NOSYMLINKEXP", "1")
-        pseudo = "export PSEUDO_PREFIX=%s;" % p_prefix
-        pseudo += "export PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR=%s;" % p_localstatedir
-        pseudo += "export PSEUDO_PASSWD=%s;" % p_passwd
-        pseudo += "export PSEUDO_NOSYMLINKEXP=%s;" % p_nosymlinkexp
         pseudo += "%s " % get_bitbake_var("FAKEROOTCMD")

         rootfs = "%s/rootfs_%s.%s.%s" % (cr_workdir, self.label,


On 02.05.2018 17:51, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
Hi

I just got hit by this one. It is specially nasty because nfsroot
fails to boot if the uids are wrong.

What is the status on this?

On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 11:39 AM, Volker Vogelhuber
<v.vogelhu...@digitalendoscopy.de> wrote:
I finally found out, what's the reason why the included recovery rootfs has
the wrong UIDs, while the main image has the correct one. The reason seems
to be the PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR variable that is set to the state dir of the
main image in both cases.
I debugged all the calls up to the environment setup in partition.py's
prepare_rootfs method where a check for an existing PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR
environment variable is done. That seems to be the problem.
Instead of using the correct value passed to the prepare_rootfs method, an
existing ENV value is used that points to the state dir of the main image
instead of the recovery one's. I guess the reason is that in bitbake.conf
the PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR is set to the image currently build (which is the
main image and not the recovery image only referenced by the main image). So
because that environment variable is already set, the call to mkfs.ext4 for
the recovery image uses the wrong PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR and does not apply
the correct UID.

Any ideas how to fix that? I tend to just remove the patch introduced by Ed
Bartosh three years ago (https://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/90419/)
because I don't need a custom PSEUDO_PREFIX. But maybe not everyone agrees.

On 19.01.2018 17:00, Volker Vogelhuber wrote:

I'm currently trying to create a multi RootFS WIC image as mentioned in
directdisk-multi-rootfs.wks. For that I have two image recipes. One that
is creating only an ext4 image (image-recovery), and the second that is also
creating a WIC image (image-main). I used the IMAGE_FSTYPES variable for
that. The WKS file for the second image is integrating the recovery image by
specifying --rootfs-dir=image-recovery in it's part description.

# primary / recovery image
part / --source rootfs --rootfs-dir=image-main --exclude-path mnt/data/
mnt/data2/ --fstype=ext4 --label primary_rootfs --align 1024 --size 700
--overhead-factor=1.0
part /recovery --source rootfs --rootfs-dir=image-recovery --fstype=ext4
--label recovery_rootfs --align 1024 --size 640 --overhead-factor=1.0

The UIDs of the second rootfs (image-main) are correctly set to 0 within
the file system when calling mkfs.ext4 during prepare_rootfs_ext. For the
recovery rootfs the UID is always set to my own (host) one which is of
course not valid for the image where that UID does not exist.
I tried calling the mkfs.ext4 command myself from a terminal and for
whatever reason an image created out of the rootfs folder of the second
image (image-main) recipe is deployed with the correct UID 0, while the
rootfs folder of the first image (image-recovery) recipe always uses the UID
of the source folder/files.

I search the code of e2fsprogs for the line that sets the UID and added a
printf in set_inode_extra. There I can see clearly that the source UID for
the file is 0 for the rootfs of the image-main rootfs folder while it is
10000 (my own UID) for the image-recovery. I wonder how the UID of the
image-main rootfs folder can be zero when I don't call any command with root
permissions. I searched for a preparation step where the UIDs are managed in
the scripts folder of Yocto, but didn't found any hint for the whole
behavior. So while it is good that the rootfs partition of the main rootfs
has the UID set correctly to zero, I can't understand why it happens. On the
other side I can understand why the UID of the recovery rootfs is set to my
own one, but it stops me from booting that rootfs because the UIDs of the
files and folders are set to a user that does not exist on the target
system.

Can someone please explain to me, how that UID handling is meant to be
done?


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