[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#499014: Bug#499014: dbus - Fails to install: chown: invalid group: `messagebus:messagebus'

Mon Sep 22 06:45:17 UTC 2008

severity 499014 serious
thanks

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 07:06:24AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> There was no further information provided. So the only possible
> explanation for this scenario is, that the user either
> 1.) Deleted the messagebus group
> 2.) Created the messagebus user himself without the corresponding
> messagebus group
> 3.) Copied /etc/passwd around (without the corresponding /etc/group)
> 4.) A bug in adduser (highly unlikely)

The package is not able to recover from error conditions, in this case a
missing group. How this happened is irrelevant.

Bastian

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