[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#496221: invalid group "haldaemon"

[Michael Biebl]

Robert Millan wrote:
> Package: hal
> Version: 0.5.11-3
> Severity: serious
> 
> Postinst failed while installing gparted (which dragged in hal):
> 
> S'està configurant hal (0.5.11-3) ...
> chown: el grup no és vàlid: haldaemon:haldaemon
> dpkg: s'ha produït un error en processar hal (--configure):
>  el subprocés post-installation script retornà el codi d'eixida d'error 1
> 
> hal seems to assume incorrectly that group "haldaemon" exists.

Please see #460107 for details.

I'd be interested how it is possible, that a user haldaemon exists, but
no group haldaemon. Have you copied /etc/passwd from somewhere else?
Do you use something like ldap or NIS (where the haldaemon user is
defined). Anything special about your setup.

Cheers,
Michael


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