Control: done -1 Hi Vincent,
On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 09:47:09PM +0100, Vincent Blut wrote: > Control: tags -1 + moreinfo > > Hi Daniel, > > Le 2025-03-21 16:57, Daniel Gröber a écrit : > > Package: chrony > > Version: 4.6.1-1 > > Severity: normal > > X-Debbugs-Cc: d...@darkboxed.org > > > > Hi Vincent, > > > > I installed and removed chrony=4.6.1-1 in an unstable schroot and > > afterwards dpkg complains: > > > > dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: > > unknown system group '_chrony' in statoverride file; the system group > > got removed > > before the override, which is most probably a packaging bug, to recover > > you > > can remove the override manually with dpkg-statoverride > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) > > > > > > This appears to be because your package didn't clean up it's > > dpkg-statoverrides: > > > > $ dpkg-statoverride --list | grep chrony > > root _chrony 640 /etc/chrony/chrony.keys > > _chrony _chrony 750 /var/lib/chrony > > _chrony _chrony 750 /var/log/chrony > > chrony does clean stat overrides on purge. From d/postinst: > for d in /var/lib/chrony /var/log/chrony /etc/chrony/chrony.keys; do > if dpkg-statoverride --list "$d" >/dev/null; then > dpkg-statoverride --remove "$d" > fi > done > > Since this issue does not seem to be reproducible outside schroot, I'm > assuming > it is due to the way it has been configured. By default, schroot copies some > files from the host (e.g. /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/group) into the > chroot > each time a new session is started. Could this be the issue at play? Ah, I think you're spot on. I must have exited the session (I thought I didn't!) after removing but not purging chrony. I just tested this and my schroot does ofc. overwrite /etc/passwd which breaks the leftover statoverrides. My bad. Thanks, --Daniel
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