use fallback mechanism that relies on $USER or $LOGNAME when determining username via pwd.getpwuid fails#5151
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… pwd.getpwuid Co-authored-by: Kenneth Hoste <[email protected]>
$USER or $LOGNAME when determining username via pwd.getpwuid fails
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Currently on Lumi, you get a hard failure when trying to do an EasyBuild installation on a compute node (in the EESSI environment):
{EESSI/2025.06} alanocai@nid005125:~/mpi_inject> id -un id: cannot find name for user ID 327004947 327004947 {EESSI/2025.06} alanocai@nid005125:~/mpi_inject> eb --missing libcxi.eb Traceback (most recent call last): File "<frozen runpy>", line 198, in _run_module_as_main File "<frozen runpy>", line 88, in _run_code File "/cvmfs/software.eessi.io/versions/2025.06/software/linux/x86_64/amd/zen3/software/EasyBuild/5.2.1/lib/python3.13/site-packages/easybuild/main.py", line 862, in <module> main_with_hooks() ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^ File "/cvmfs/software.eessi.io/versions/2025.06/software/linux/x86_64/amd/zen3/software/EasyBuild/5.2.1/lib/python3.13/site-packages/easybuild/main.py", line 840, in main_with_hooks init_session_state, eb_go, cfg_settings = prepare_main(args=args) ~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/cvmfs/software.eessi.io/versions/2025.06/software/linux/x86_64/amd/zen3/software/EasyBuild/5.2.1/lib/python3.13/site-packages/easybuild/main.py", line 832, in prepare_main eb_go, cfg_settings = set_up_configuration(args=args, logfile=logfile, testing=testing) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/cvmfs/software.eessi.io/versions/2025.06/software/linux/x86_64/amd/zen3/software/EasyBuild/5.2.1/lib/python3.13/site-packages/easybuild/tools/options.py", line 1822, in set_up_configuration eb_go = parse_options(args=args) File "/cvmfs/software.eessi.io/versions/2025.06/software/linux/x86_64/amd/zen3/software/EasyBuild/5.2.1/lib/python3.13/site-packages/easybuild/tools/options.py", line 1691, in parse_options eb_go = EasyBuildOptions(usage=usage, description=description, prog='eb', envvar_prefix=CONFIG_ENV_VAR_PREFIX, go_args=eb_args, error_env_options=True, error_env_option_method=raise_easybuilderror, with_include=with_include) File "/cvmfs/software.eessi.io/versions/2025.06/software/linux/x86_64/amd/zen3/software/EasyBuild/5.2.1/lib/python3.13/site-packages/easybuild/tools/options.py", line 253, in __init__ 'USER': (pwd.getpwuid(os.geteuid()).pw_name, ~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ KeyError: 'getpwuid(): uid not found: 327004947'