On Tue, Mar 04, 2025 at 02:11:36PM +0100, thah...@t-online.de wrote: > tom@cincuenta:~$ sudo dpkg --configure dbus-system-bus-common > Setting up dbus-system-bus-common (1.16.2-1) ... > fatal: The user `messagebus' already exists, but is not a system user. > Exiting. > dpkg: error processing package dbus-system-bus-common (--configure): > installed dbus-system-bus-common package post-installation script > subprocess returned error exit status > Errors were encountered while processing: > dbus-system-bus-common > tom@cincuenta:~$ grep messagebus /etc/passwd /etc/group > /etc/passwd:messagebus:x:103:109::/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin > /etc/group:messagebus:x:109:
Is that an older installation? What does the messagebus line in /etc/shadow say? Greetings Marc
