[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#477759: Bug#477759: dbus: postinst script notice

[Michael Biebl]

Hi Alex,

please always CC the bug report !

Alexander Davydenko wrote:
> -----   Original Message   -----
> From:    <biebl at teco.edu> on behalf of *Michael Biebl*
> Sent:    Fri, 25 Apr, 2008 at 05:15 +0200
> Subject: Re: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#477759: dbus: postinst script notice
> 
>> Quoting Alexander Davydenko <alex at topconps.org>:
>>>
>>> The postinst script on configure stage try to adduser,
>>> which is present on system, as such package installation failed.
>> I haven't fully understood you, but adduser does *not* fail, if the  
>> messagebus user is already present. If it does, it is a bug in adduser  
>> [1].
>>
>> Could you post the complete error message of adduser please?
>> Could you explain in more detail what went wrong.
>>
>>
>>
>> [1] Do you have NIS or LDAP, and the messagebus user stored in ldap?
> 
> Please consider output of attached s.sh, if the user exists output
> is 'The user `messagebus' already exists. Exiting.' and a whole script
> exited because 'set -e'.

Nope, that is not correct. adduser will *not* return an error if the
user doesn't exist (and the script you sent me does print Ok fwiw).

Again, could you please send me the complete error message of the
postinst script?
Could it be, that you have a dbus user but no dbus group and so the
chown fails?

Michael
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