2014-10-24 2:16 GMT+02:00 Clint Adams <cl...@debian.org>: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 01:33:56AM +0200, Samuel Amo wrote: > > I just tried "fakeroot make deb-pkg" of the Linux Kernel sources, and > > when it tries to do its "chown -R root:root $pdir" (from > > scripts/package/builddeb) it fails with a "chown: invalid group: > > 'root:root' ". > > > > Trying to narrow down, one finds that, once inside a fakeroot shell, a > > "chgrp root <file>" fails for any file > > with 'chgrp: invalid group: 'root'' > > > > Expected output: just change the group without error. > > I can't reproduce this. > > What are the outputs of `fakeroot id` and `getent group root` ? >
Thank you for having tried it! Might it be some problem local to me? Here is my output for these 2 commands: samuel@****:~$ fakeroot id uid=0(root) gid=0 groups=0,24,25,26,29,30,40,44,46,105,109,110,111,113,116,124,1000,1002 samuel@****:~$ getent group root samuel@****:~$
