[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#727057: Bug#727057: network-manager: Fails to install if netdev group already exists

[Andrew Ruthven]

On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 00:05 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> This getent check is not necessary:
> # addgroup --system netdev
> addgroup: The group `netdev' already exists as a system group. Exiting.
> # echo $?
> 0
> 
> If addgroup fails for you, please file a bug against adduser.

Sadly if the group is not a system group, then it exits with return code
1 and a warning that the GID isn't in the system group range.

This may be an edge case, but it certainly stopped network-manager from
upgrading.

Cheers!

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Andrew Ruthven
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