Hi Debconf maintainers, Have you had a chance to review this bug? AFAICT, it got clone+reassigned without you explicitly being CC'ed, so I am leaving the full mail quoted below for your sake.
~Niels On Thu, 23 Feb 2017 11:39:08 +0100 Maximiliano Curia <m...@debian.org> wrote: > Control: clone -1 -2 > Control: reassign -2 debconf 1.5.60 > Control: retitle -2 db_purge: exits with error code 8 when using deluser in > the same postinst > > ¡Hola Laurent! > > El 2017-02-01 a las 13:31 +0100, Laurent Bonnaud escribió: > > Package: sddm > > Version: 0.14.0-1 > > Severity: serious > > > here is the problem: > > > # apt purge sddm sddm-theme-breeze > > Reading package lists... Done > > Building dependency tree > > Reading state information... Done > > The following packages will be REMOVED: > > sddm* sddm-theme-breeze* > > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > > After this operation, 2 595 kB disk space will be freed. > > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > > (Reading database ... 261837 files and directories currently installed.) > > Removing sddm (0.14.0-1) > > .....................................................................................................] > > Please be sure to run "dpkg-reconfigure gdm3". > > Removing sddm-theme-breeze (4:5.8.5-1) ... > > Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ... > > (Reading database ... 261663 files and directories currently installed.) > > Purging configuration files for sddm (0.14.0-1) ... > > Removing user `sddm' ... > > Warning: group `sddm' has no more members. > > userdel: user sddm is currently used by process 658 > > /usr/sbin/deluser: `/usr/sbin/userdel sddm' returned error code 8. Exiting. > > Could not remove sddm user. > > /usr/sbin/delgroup: `sddm' still has `sddm' as their primary group! > > Could not remove sddm group. > > > Stopping the service before the purge fixes the problem. > > This is the expected output when sddm is still running. We don't want to stop > the running display manager as it will kill the graphical user session. > > > userdel: user sddm is currently used by process 658 > > /usr/sbin/deluser: `/usr/sbin/userdel sddm' returned error code 8. Exiting. > > /usr/sbin/delgroup: `sddm' still has `sddm' as their primary group! > > This part is not caused by us. Mmh, after a closer inspection this is caused > by the debconf purge, which get's confused with any message written to stdout. > > I'm cloning the issue to debconf, as it would be better if db_purge wouldn't > be > trying to parse whatever was printed to the stdout. > > On the sddm usecase, I'll add the deluser and echo redirections (>&2). > > Happy hacking, > -- > A computer scientist is someone who, when told to "Go to Hell," > sees the "go to," rather than the destination, as harmful. > Saludos /\/\ /\ >< `/
