Please ignore the below patch. The issue was actually fixed in master at http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/meta/classes/extrausers.bbclass?id=fa541362e2d2cc0494a86a413b7b52dfe3eee908
BR, Awais ________________________________________ From: openembedded-core-boun...@lists.openembedded.org <openembedded-core-boun...@lists.openembedded.org> on behalf of Belal, Awais Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2016 6:01 PM To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: [OE-core] [PATCH] core-image-minimal-initramfs: fix extrausers functionality The extrausers functionality requires base-passwd and shadow to be installed before it can be leveraged. Otherwise while using the features of the class we get into build errors like the following ERROR: core-image-minimal-initramfs-1.0-r0 do_rootfs: core-image-minimal-initramfs: useradd command did not succeed. Signed-off-by: Awais Belal <awais_be...@mentor.com> --- meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal-initramfs.bb | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal-initramfs.bb b/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal-initramfs.bb index 5794a25..8186ddc 100644 --- a/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal-initramfs.bb +++ b/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal-initramfs.bb @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Small image capable of booting a device. The kernel includes \ the Minimal RAM-based Initial Root Filesystem (initramfs), which finds the \ first 'init' program more efficiently." -PACKAGE_INSTALL = "initramfs-live-boot initramfs-live-install initramfs-live-install-efi ${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils} udev base-passwd ${ROOTFS_BOOTSTRAP_INSTALL}" +PACKAGE_INSTALL = "initramfs-live-boot initramfs-live-install initramfs-live-install-efi ${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils} udev base-passwd shadow ${ROOTFS_BOOTSTRAP_INSTALL}" # Do not pollute the initrd image with rootfs features IMAGE_FEATURES = "" -- 1.9.1 -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core