Chronyd not starting issue "Fatal error : Could not get user/group ID of nobody"
I have just chased this down on my RT-AX92u(3004.388.7_1-gnuton0_alpha1) and Entware 4.5.1, ntpMerlin 3.4.5.
Seems that chronyd (or the libraries it links) are looking for the passwd file in /opt/etc/passwd (entware environment) rather than /tmp/etc/passwd (router). There is a passwd.1 and group.1 in there
[bit suss here about what THAT root password (in passwd.1) allows!]. PW is "12345" I have removed that password!
To solve the chronyd startup, I just copied the router passwd and group files from /tmp/etc/ to /opt/etc/
I also installed "rd" which runs 'ntpdate' to initially set the clock, and 'nvram set ntp_ready=1' to avoid scripts deadlocking because NTP is not synced.
i.e. in say service-event
"
#!/bin/sh
cp /tmp/etc/passwd /opt/etc/
cp /tmp/etc/group /opt/etc/
# ntpdate xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
nvram set ntp_ready=1
nvram commit
"
I have just chased this down on my RT-AX92u(3004.388.7_1-gnuton0_alpha1) and Entware 4.5.1, ntpMerlin 3.4.5.
Seems that chronyd (or the libraries it links) are looking for the passwd file in /opt/etc/passwd (entware environment) rather than /tmp/etc/passwd (router). There is a passwd.1 and group.1 in there
[bit suss here about what THAT root password (in passwd.1) allows!]. PW is "12345" I have removed that password!
To solve the chronyd startup, I just copied the router passwd and group files from /tmp/etc/ to /opt/etc/
I also installed "rd" which runs 'ntpdate' to initially set the clock, and 'nvram set ntp_ready=1' to avoid scripts deadlocking because NTP is not synced.
i.e. in say service-event
"
#!/bin/sh
cp /tmp/etc/passwd /opt/etc/
cp /tmp/etc/group /opt/etc/
# ntpdate xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
nvram set ntp_ready=1
nvram commit
"
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