[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#579265: mailman: installation fails because of invalid user

[Éric Araujo]

Package: mailman
Version: 1:2.1.13-2
Severity: normal

Hello  I can’t fully install nor remove Mailman. This is the error log,
boring lines removed:  # LC_ALL=C aptitude install mailman [...] The following
partially installed packages will be configured:   mailman  [...] update-rc.d:
warning: mailman stop runlevel arguments (1) do not match LSB Default-Stop
values (none) insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (0 1 6) of script
`ntp' overwrites defaults (empty). install: invalid user `list' invoke-rc.d:
initscript mailman, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing mailman
(--configure):  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error
exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing:  mailman  When trying
to remove, the same error happens, this time with invoke-rc.d action
“stop”.  Thanks for looking into this.   Regards


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mailman depends on:
ii  cdebconf [debconf-2.0]  0.147            Debian Configuration Management Sy
ii  cherokee [httpd]        0.99.44-1        Very fast, flexible and easy to co
ii  cron                    3.0pl1-109       process scheduling daemon
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.5.32           Debian configuration management sy
ii  dma [mail-transport-age 0.0.2009.07.17-3 lightweight mail transport agent
ii  libc6                   2.10.2-6         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  lighttpd [httpd]        1.4.26-1.1       A fast webserver with minimal memo
ii  logrotate               3.7.8-5          Log rotation utility
ii  lsb-base                3.2-23           Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  pwgen                   2.06-1+b1        Automatic Password generation
ii  python                  2.5.4-9          An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-support          1.0.7            automated rebuilding support for P
ii  ucf                     3.0025           Update Configuration File: preserv

mailman recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mailman suggests:
pn  listadmin                     <none>     (no description available)
pn  lynx                          <none>     (no description available)
pn  spamassassin                  <none>     (no description available)

-- debconf information:
  mailman/queue_files_present: abort installation
* mailman/default_server_language: en
  mailman/gate_news: false
* mailman/site_languages: en
* mailman/used_languages:
* mailman/create_site_list: