[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#460107: Same problem, when installing in chroot

[Michael Biebl]

Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> Michael Biebl writes:
>> Armin Berres wrote:
>>> Heyya!
>>>
>>> I just tried to install hal in a chroot and got exactly the same error.
>>> Calling addgroup by hand solved the problem for me. Maybe you should add
>>> the group before calling adduser just to be sure?
>>> I copied some stuff from my real system to the chroot, which could be a
>>> reason, but calling addgroup shouldn't hurt, so...
>> Hi Richard,
>>
>> did you do something similar like this:
>> copy /etc/passwd (but not /etc/group) from another system? Did you have
>> an older version of hal installed before or was it a clean install?
> 
> The system was initialized by xen-create-image.  (I'm sorry I didn't
> mention this before!)
> 
> My vm host is turned off right now but I can check its configuration
> in detail if necessary.
> 

Yes, that would help. Could you check (or send me) the contents of 
/etc/passwd and /etc/group for the haldaemon entry.
What does
getent passwd | grep haldaemon
getent group | grep haldaemon
say.

Cheers,
Michael
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