On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 01:13 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
Hi Richard,

Jumping on this thread to provide some clarifications as I hit the same bug.
I can confirm that this is not an environment issue. I could reproduce it by adding a sudo call in an empty recipe like this:

SUMMARY = ""
HOMEPAGE = ""
LICENSE = ""
SECTION = ""
DEPENDS = ""

SRC_URI = ""

do_install() {
    ls -l /usr/bin/sudo
    sudo ls -l /usr/bin/sudo
}


Running bitbake barebone on my x86 machine produces this error:

| -rwxr-xr-x 1 nobody 65534 232416 Mar  1 13:59 /usr/bin/sudo
| sudo: /etc/sudo.conf is owned by uid 65534, should be 0
| sudo: /etc/sudo.conf is owned by uid 65534, should be 0
| sudo: error in /etc/sudo.conf, line 0 while loading plugin "sudoers_policy"
| sudo: /usr/libexec/sudo/sudoers.so must be owned by uid 0
| sudo: fatal error, unable to load plugins

Indeed it seems that ownership is broken somehow in the bb environment. The issue was introduced somewhere between dunfell and kirkstone. I know it's a large timespan but it's a bit time consuming to narrow it down.

Hoping to get some help on this. I would try to investigate further myself but I have no idea where to start to be honest.

Best regards,
--Adrian