[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#501601: Bug#501601: Hal does not install

[Michael Biebl]

Joerg Hoh wrote:
> Package: hal
> Version: 0.5.11-4
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> Installation of hal doesn't work.
>  
> Setting up hal (0.5.11-4) ...
> adduser: Please enter a username matching the regular expression configured
> via the NAME_REGEX configuration variable.  Use the `--force-badname'
> option to relax this check or reconfigure NAME_REGEX.
> dpkg: error processing hal (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  hal
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> The postinst script has the following call:
> 
>     adduser --system \
>             --quiet  \
>             --disabled-password \
>             --no-create-home \
>             --home "/var/run/hal" \
>             --gecos "Hardware abstraction layer" \
>             --group haldaemon
> 
> But it seems to miss the user which should be created ("haldaemon").

The adduser call is correct.

Have you a locally modified /etc/adduser.conf?
What does "debsums -a adduser" say? (Install the debsums package for
that to work)
What is the output of "whereis adduser"?
Have you set the NAME_REGEX configuration variable?


Cheers,
Michael


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