Hi Alex, please always CC the bug report !
Alexander Davydenko wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on behalf of *Michael Biebl* > Sent: Fri, 25 Apr, 2008 at 05:15 +0200 > Subject: Re: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#477759: dbus: postinst script notice > >> Quoting Alexander Davydenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> >>> The postinst script on configure stage try to adduser, >>> which is present on system, as such package installation failed. >> I haven't fully understood you, but adduser does *not* fail, if the >> messagebus user is already present. If it does, it is a bug in adduser >> [1]. >> >> Could you post the complete error message of adduser please? >> Could you explain in more detail what went wrong. >> >> >> >> [1] Do you have NIS or LDAP, and the messagebus user stored in ldap? > > Please consider output of attached s.sh, if the user exists output > is 'The user `messagebus' already exists. Exiting.' and a whole script > exited because 'set -e'. Nope, that is not correct. adduser will *not* return an error if the user doesn't exist (and the script you sent me does print Ok fwiw). Again, could you please send me the complete error message of the postinst script? Could it be, that you have a dbus user but no dbus group and so the chown fails? Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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