[Pkg-uml-devel] old uml-utilities bug running adduser (#326029)
Mattia Dongili
malattia at linux.it
Sat Apr 8 16:33:25 UTC 2006
Hello Adduser people, Steinar,
while reviewing uml-utilities bugs I can't reproduce #326029 which is
related to an adduser error while setting up the package. Relevant
log from submitter is:
Setting up uml-utilities (20040406-1) ...
useradd: unknown group uml-net
adduser: `/usr/sbin/useradd -d /home/uml-net -g uml-net -s /bin/false -u 254 uml-net' returned error code 6. Aborting.
Cleaning up.
Removing user `uml-net'.
userdel: user uml-net does not exist
Removing group `uml-net'.
groupdel: group uml-net does not exist
dpkg: error processing uml-utilities (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
...
Ack! Something bad happened while installing packages. Trying to recover:
Setting up uml-utilities (20040406-1) ...
groupadd: name uml-net is not unique
adduser: `/usr/sbin/groupadd -g 255 uml-net' returned error code 9. Aborting.
Cleaning up.
Removing group `uml-net'.
groupdel: group uml-net does not exist
dpkg: error processing uml-utilities (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
uml-utilities postins uses the following script :
if ! getent passwd uml-net >/dev/null; then
if getent group uml-net >/dev/null; then
# earlier versions only created a group
adduser --quiet --system --ingroup uml-net --no-create-home uml-net
else
adduser --quiet --system --group --no-create-home uml-net
fi
fi
which seem safe to me, and I also tried some combinations of existing
user/existing group without being able to reproduce the bug.
This was on 09/01/2005 I'd say around adduser>=3.67.
Can any of you recognize any known adduser bug? I've seen some similar
logs in the BTS (eg: #327804).
Steinar, can you are you still able to reproduce such bug?
Please Cc: me as I'm not subscribed to the adduser lists, thanks.
Thans in advance.
--
mattia
:wq!
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