Package: man-db Version: 2.4.3-6 Severity: important
man-db will fail to fully install unless the root group exists on the system: sh-3.1$ sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y Setting up man-db (2.4.3-6) ... chown: `root:root': invalid group dpkg: error processing man-db (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: man-db E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) This can obviously be worked around by creating the root group: sh-3.1$ sudo groupadd root sh-3.1$ sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y Setting up man-db (2.4.3-6) ... However this group was not present in my 4.0 install by default which probably makes it a issue in man-db or the install system. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16.29-xen Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages man-db depends on: ii bsdmainutils 6.1.6 collection of more utilities from ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11 Debian configuration management sy ii dpkg 1.13.25 package maintenance system for Deb ii groff-base 1.18.1.1-12 GNU troff text-formatting system ( ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-3 GNU dbm database routines (runtime man-db recommends no packages. -- debconf information: man-db/install-setuid: false man-db/build-database: true man-db/rebuild-database: true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
