This one time, at band camp, Sjoerd Simons said: > reassign 351609 adduser > thanks, > > On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 11:46:37AM +0000, Stephen Gran wrote: > > This one time, at band camp, Thomer M. Gil said: > > > When installing hal, I get: > > > > > > (Reading database ... 72238 files and directories currently installed.) > > > Unpacking hal (from .../archives/hal_0.5.6-2_i386.deb) ... > > > Setting up hal (0.5.6-2) ... > > > groupadd: GID 108 is not unique > > > adduser: `/usr/sbin/groupadd -g 108 hal' returned error code 4. Aborting. > > > > This is an adduser bug, it looks like. See #351480 and #351552. They > > are marked as done, but it looks like not. > > Probably using a too old adduser or something? Anyway, reassigning it to > adduser as they probably know what's going on here :)
The original report said that the version of adduser installed was supposedly the fixed version. However, I see that the fixed version also had a couple of places where the same sort of thing could happen, so I submitted a patch for that. Take care, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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