[AURORA-1761] Sandbox taskfs setup fails (groupadd error)

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.16.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.16.0
• Component/s: Executor
• Assignee: Zhitao Li
• Reporter: Chetan Sarva
• Created: 31/Aug/16 14:21
• Updated: 19/Sep/16 18:49
• Resolved: 02/Sep/16 20:27

Description

When launching a job using the Mesos containerizer and a docker image, the sandbox setup fails with the following error:

Failed to initialize sandbox: Failed to create group in sandbox for task image: Command '['groupadd', '-R', '/var/lib/mesos/slaves/853a55ff-b319-451e-8797-80eae2e301c3-S0/frameworks/16faae0a-5d31-400c-84e7-e6edbdf2afff-0000/executors/thermos-root-devel-redis-aurora-0-0dcec1df-2e34-4fd9-8f77-955127bce03d/runs/13e44672-a93a-4071-9ee3-ec6450b2a5f1/taskfs', '-g', '0', 'root']' returned non-zero exit status 9

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See test case:
https://gist.github.com/chetan/1b2dd4c2dd4f0c556e55080fd1505653

Also:
https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/blob/master/src/groupadd.c#L66-L67
(this is the version used by debian, not sure of others)