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Subject: bug#30644: Cuirass runs out of build users
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 15:01:30 +0100
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To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
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Hello,

Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> in trying out the new bayfront machine, I raised the number of concurrent
> build jobs to 10; the number of build accounts is programmatically set to
> twice this number.

Indeed, (sysadmin services) in guix-maintenance.git does that.

> 2018-02-27T18:31:16 batch of builds (partially) failed:all build users ar=
e currently in use; consider creating additional users and adding them to t=
he `guixbuild' group (status: 1)

[...]

> Hm, the directories in /tmp are created by guixbuilder01 to guixbuilder10.
> 10 is the default value, but it should have been overwritten.
>
> And in /etc/passwd, I see 20 users. But apparently, they are not used!

There=E2=80=99s something fishy here.  What does =E2=80=9Cgetent group guix=
build=E2=80=9D
return?

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.