[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!meta title="adduser: posix_spawn() error=1073741826"]] [[!tag open_issue_porting]] `adduser` does work as expected, the following warnings are spurious, they just appear when one doesn't have the nscd package. They do not appear on Linux boxes because there posix_spawn doesn't report ENOENT for exec(). POSIX indeed says that `if the error occurs after the calling process successfully returns, the child process shall exit with exit status 127'. The Hurd however reports all errors, thus the warning. $ sudo adduser foo Adding user `foo' ... Adding new group `foo' (1002) ... posix_spawn() error=1073741826 posix_spawn() error=1073741826 posix_spawn() error=1073741826 Adding new user `foo' (1002) with group `foo' ... posix_spawn() error=1073741826 posix_spawn() error=1073741826 posix_spawn() error=1073741826 posix_spawn() error=1073741826 Creating home directory `/home/foo' ... Copying files from `/etc/skel' ... [...] Reported at [[!debbug 623199]].