Hmm, no followup on this bug for 3 months? I installed the pcakage today and saw the same problem. This is a two part bug, part 1 is that this error message is wrong:
if [ -z "$UGID" ]; then echo "User $USER does not exist" >&2 exit 1 fi (Should be $RUNASUSER.) Part 2 is that the ntp user is created by the ntp-simple package, but the ntp package installs an init script that needs that user to exist. Since ntp does not depend on ntp-simple, ntp is configured before ntp-simple and so the ntp user is not created in time. The fix for this is probably moving the adduser call to the ntp package. -- see shy jo
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