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and subject line Bug#579265: mailman: installation fails because of invalid user
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: mailman
Version: 1:2.1.13-2
Severity: normal
Hello I can’t fully install nor remove Mailman. This is the error log,
boring lines removed: # LC_ALL=C aptitude install mailman [...] The following
partially installed packages will be configured: mailman [...] update-rc.d:
warning: mailman stop runlevel arguments (1) do not match LSB Default-Stop
values (none) insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (0 1 6) of script
`ntp' overwrites defaults (empty). install: invalid user `list' invoke-rc.d:
initscript mailman, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing mailman
(--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error
exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: mailman When trying
to remove, the same error happens, this time with invoke-rc.d action
“stop”. Thanks for looking into this. Regards
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages mailman depends on:
ii cdebconf [debconf-2.0] 0.147 Debian Configuration Management Sy
ii cherokee [httpd] 0.99.44-1 Very fast, flexible and easy to co
ii cron 3.0pl1-109 process scheduling daemon
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.32 Debian configuration management sy
ii dma [mail-transport-age 0.0.2009.07.17-3 lightweight mail transport agent
ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii lighttpd [httpd] 1.4.26-1.1 A fast webserver with minimal memo
ii logrotate 3.7.8-5 Log rotation utility
ii lsb-base 3.2-23 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii pwgen 2.06-1+b1 Automatic Password generation
ii python 2.5.4-9 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-support 1.0.7 automated rebuilding support for P
ii ucf 3.0025 Update Configuration File: preserv
mailman recommends no packages.
Versions of packages mailman suggests:
pn listadmin <none> (no description available)
pn lynx <none> (no description available)
pn spamassassin <none> (no description available)
-- debconf information:
mailman/queue_files_present: abort installation
* mailman/default_server_language: en
mailman/gate_news: false
* mailman/site_languages: en
* mailman/used_languages:
* mailman/create_site_list:
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--- Begin Message ---
Hello
> The user 'list' is defined in base-files and is guaranteed to be available by
> Debian Policy. Did you by any chance remove that user by hand?
I had indeed. I downloaded base-file to see how to properly re-create
the user, didn’t find, so since I have /etc under version control, I put
back the line in /etc/passwd. Mailman installed fine. (Well, apart from
a warning about levels in the init script, but that’s another bug report :)
Thank you
Regards
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