[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#655515: Bug#655515: Bug in ntp.postinst

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 01:26:43PM -0700, Gerald Turner wrote:
> + addgroup --system --quiet ntp
> 
> # man addgroup
> ...
> EXIT VALUES
> ...
>   1  Creating the user or group failed because it was already present
>      with other UID/GID than specified. The username or groupname was
>      rejected because of a mismatch with the configured regular
>      expressions, see adduser.conf(5). Adduser has been aborted by a
>      signal. Or for many other yet undocumented reasons which are
>      printed to console then. You may then consider to remove --quiet to
>      make adduser more verbose.
> ...
> 
> I hacked around the problem by appending '|| true' expressions to the
> postinst addgroup/adduser commands.

Since we don't say which gid to use, that can't be a reason to
fail.  It also never failed here ...

Maybe it's not a system group for you?  What does "getent group ntp"
return?

Can you run it without the --quiet option?


Kurt