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

[Michael Biebl]

Robert Millan wrote:
> 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...
> 

This is pretty weird. So after the installation you have both a
haldaemon user/group, but during the installation postinst aborts with a
invalid group error when doing the chown.

I'm a bit a puzzled now, really.

Michael
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