FS#56691 - [filesystem] /etc/group is empty except for root; /etc/hosts is also empty

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Jochen Keil (jrk) - Tuesday, 12 December 2017, 17:48 GMT
Last edited by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Tuesday, 12 December 2017, 17:54 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Critical
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

filesystem-2017.10-2

This package is majorly broken. The group file is empty, except for root. Default groups get random gids. The hosts file is completely empty. Who knows what else is broken. How are you supposed to install a new system with this?

I've wasted to two evenings on this before I figured it out...

(Seriously, this kind of nonsense makes me think to switch to another distribution after 10 years of Arch. Why can't we have some automated QA for packages?)
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Closed by  Eli Schwartz (eschwartz)
Tuesday, 12 December 2017, 17:54 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  All of this works just fine on everyone else's system. Does your system have a functioning sysusers.d(5) setup?

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