On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 12:59:12PM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut said: > Stephen Gran escribió: > >This one time, at band camp, Eric Van Buggenhaut said: > >>When trying to add a user to the system I get these errors: > >> > >>kaplan:~# adduser pepe > >>Use of uninitialized value in symlink at /usr/sbin/adduser line 695, > >><FIND> line 167. > >>symlink: No such file or directory > >You have a 'dead' symlink (i.e., a symlink pointing to a non-existant > >file) in /etc/skel. Remove it, and it should work. > > Thanks for your answer. Indeed: > > kaplan:/home/eric# ls -l /etc/skel/.kde/socket-kaplan > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Nov 25 2005 /etc/skel/.kde/socket-kaplan -> > /tmp/ksocket-carlos > kaplan:/home/eric# more /etc/skel/.kde/socket-kaplan > /etc/skel/.kde/socket-kaplan: No such file or directory > kaplan:/home/eric# > > Maybe the adduser script should check for such broken symlinks ?
Well, it does, and that's why it failed :( It could fial more gracefully, and I will look into making it do so in newer versions, but for the life of sarge, I tend to think we're stuck with this. To fix the problem on your end, just remove that symbolic link. Thanks for the report, and take care, -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Just because your doctor has a name for | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | your condition doesn't mean he knows | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | what it is. | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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