All commands fail on systems with UIDs > 2^31: strconv.ParseInt value out of range

[e-gineer]

Problem

On Linux systems with UIDs or GIDs exceeding 2,147,483,647 (common with LDAP/SSSD/AD integration), every steampipe command fails — including steampipe plugin list:

Error: failed to get status: strconv.ParseInt: parsing "2721275558": value out of range

From the logs:

error finding process 7163: failed to get status: strconv.ParseInt: parsing "2721275558": value out of range

Root Cause

The verifyRunning() function in pkg/pluginmanager/state.go calls utils.FindProcess() on every startup to check if the plugin manager is alive. This calls gopsutil's process.Status(), which reads /proc/<pid>/status and parses UIDs with strconv.ParseInt(value, 10, 32) — overflowing for UIDs > int32 max.

The underlying fix is in pipe-fittings: turbot/pipe-fittings#781

Additional cleanup

Steampipe also has a local copy of FindProcess in pkg/utils/pid_exists.go with the same bug. There's already a TODO to consolidate to the pipe-fittings version:

// TODO We should look to use pipe-fittings/v2/utils.PidExists instead of this function.
// https://github.com/turbot/steampipe/issues/4487

Once pipe-fittings is fixed, steampipe should:

1. Update the pipe-fittings dependency
2. Remove the local pkg/utils/pid_exists.go and use the pipe-fittings version (per the existing TODO)

Environment

• Steampipe v2.4.0
• Ubuntu 24
• System UID/GID > 2,147,483,647 (enterprise identity management)