On Dec 3, 2012 7:06 AM, "Tom Gundersen" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > > Some fun here... > > > > (1/1) removing dbus-core > > [######################] 100% > > userdel: user dbus is currently used by process 336 > > groupdel: cannot remove the primary group of user 'dbus' > > error: command failed to execute correctly > > > > Obviously nothing to be concerned about... > > Oh, nice... I don't know why I didn't get that message. > > Anyway, it is not a problem. If for some reason the removal should > work, then the user/group will be added back immediately by the dbus > upgrade. > > Any suggestions on how these messages can be avoided? > > -t
I do hate our filesystem upgrades since /sys was made RO and pacman tries to remove it, but perhaps we should move the dbus user there. I think as a general rule, packages in [core] should probably avoid creating users and groups to avoid problems we've seen recently.
