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

[Gerald Turner]

Kurt Roeckx <kurt at roeckx.be> writes:
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 01:26:43PM -0700, Gerald Turner wrote:
>> 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?

# getent group ntp               
ntp:x:107:

> Can you run it without the --quiet option?

# addgroup --system ntp ; echo $?
addgroup: The group `ntp' already exists and is not a system group. Exiting.
1

Hmmm...

# grep '^FIRST_SYSTEM' /etc/adduser.conf
FIRST_SYSTEM_UID=123
FIRST_SYSTEM_GID=123

Sorry I forgot about that, a few years ago I was juggling a bunch of Xen
guests, trying to keep system passwd and group entries in sync for a
handful of common daemons and manually bumping adduser.conf.

Perhaps I need to restore those to 100 in order to avoid this type of
"bug" with other postinst scripts.

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