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

[Michael Biebl]

Michael Biebl wrote:
> 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.
> 

Could you please also check the maintainer scripts in
/var/lib/dpkg/info, if there is another package, that creates a
haldaemon user/group.

Thanks,
Michael


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