Michael Biebl wrote:
Richard Kettlewell wrote:
Michael Biebl writes:

Have you deleted the haldaemon system group?

No.  hal has yet to complete installation successfully on this system;
I reported another bug about this a few days back.

That's impossible. Hal has already been installed on your computer (otherwise you wouldn't have a haldaemon system user with a /home/haldaemon homedirectory). So, as I said, I can only guess that you have (unconsciously) deleted the haldaemon group. Please double check if a group wid gid 122 exists.

The reason why I claim this, is this call in hal.postinst

    adduser --system \
            --quiet  \
            --disabled-password \
            --no-create-home \
            --home "/var/run/hal" \
            --gecos "Hardware abstraction layer" \
            --group haldaemon

This adduser call creates the haldaemon group and the haldaemon user in one go. The only other possibilty would be a bug in adduser, but I doubt that very much.


Imho not a bug in hal.
Just delete the incomplete haldaemon user account and reinstall hal.

I'm tempted to close this bug. I don't think there is a bug in hal.

Sjoerd, what do you say? Am I missing something?

Cheers,
Michael


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