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

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 07:06:05PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Robert Millan wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 06:21:27PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 
> >>
> >> 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.
> > 
> > This is a chroot;  I copied /etc/passwd along with /etc/group when creating
> > it, but that must have been a while ago.  Anyway, the original versions I used
> > are from an etch system and have both the user and the group.
> 
> So, in the chroot (where you get the failure) you have a /etc/passwd
> with a haldaemon user, but a /etc/group with no haldaemon group. Is that
> correct?

No, both have it.  I have no idea if it was like this before the postinst
failure or not.  Maybe we won't be able to find out...

I still think it'd be a good idea to just check for both things separately
without making the assumptions.

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