On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 06:21:27PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > > Package: hal > > Version: 0.5.11-3 > > Severity: serious > > > > Postinst failed while installing gparted (which dragged in hal): > > > > S'està configurant hal (0.5.11-3) ... > > chown: el grup no és vàlid: haldaemon:haldaemon > > dpkg: s'ha produït un error en processar hal (--configure): > > el subprocés post-installation script retornà el codi d'eixida d'error 1 > > > > hal seems to assume incorrectly that group "haldaemon" exists. > > Please see #460107 for details. > > I'd be interested how it is possible, that a user haldaemon exists, but > no group haldaemon. Have you copied /etc/passwd from somewhere else? > Do you use something like ldap or NIS (where the haldaemon user is > defined). Anything special about your setup.
This is a chroot; I copied /etc/passwd along with /etc/group when creating it, but that must have been a while ago. Anyway, the original versions I used are from an etch system and have both the user and the group. I don't use ldap or NIS. Sorry that I can't be of more help in determining how this came to be; anyway, wouldn't it be better not to make any assumptions in the script? I.e. for both user & group, create if they weren't there. Then it can cope with a variety of situations in which the groups aren't there (including PEBCAKs). -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
