Package: colord Version: 1.4.7-3 Followup-For: Bug #1099470 Hi,
I stumbled over the same issue, and tried to have a look into what is the problem. But apperently I failed to see it, yes a colord user already exists, but is a system user and uses the same home-dir. According to `man adduser` this should not raise an error with adduser. $ id colord uid=115(colord) gid=123(colord) groups=123(colord) $ grep colord /etc/passwd /etc/group /etc/shadow /etc/passwd:colord:x:115:123:colord colour management daemon,,,:/var/lib/colord:/usr/sbin/nologin /etc/group:colord:x:123: /etc/shadow:colord:*:18596:0:99999:7::: # grep -e SYS_UID_MIN -e SYS_UID_MAX /etc/login.defs #SYS_UID_MIN 101 #SYS_UID_MAX 999 $ adduser --system --group --home /var/lib/colord --quiet --gecos "colord colour management daemon" colord warn: The home dir /var/lib/colord you specified already exists. fatal: The user `colord' already exists, but is not a system user. Exiting. $ echo $? 13 This maybe looks more like an issue in adduser? After some further debugging I saw the following behavior: $ grep colord /etc/shadow colord:*:18596:0:99999:7::: $ sed -i 's/^colord:\*:/colord:\!:/g' /etc/shadow $ grep colord /etc/shadow colord:!:18596:0:99999:7::: # adduser --system --home /var/lib/colord --comment "colord colour management daemon" colord warn: The home dir /var/lib/colord you specified already exists. fatal: The system user `colord' already exists. Exiting. $ echo $? 0 So changing the shadow password field from '*' (no pwd) to '!' (locked) allows adduser to pass. hth, br m -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (504, 'unstable'), (503, 'testing'), (502, 'experimental'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (1, 'experimental-debug') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.12.17-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages colord depends on: ii acl 2.3.2-2+b1 ii adduser 3.143 ii colord-data 1.4.7-3 ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.40.0-5 ii libc6 2.41-3 ii libcolord2 1.4.7-3 ii libcolorhug2 1.4.7-3 ii libdbus-1-3 1.16.2-1 ii libglib2.0-0t64 2.83.5-1 ii libgudev-1.0-0 238-6 ii libgusb2 0.4.9-1+b1 ii liblcms2-2 2.16-2 ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 126-2 ii libsane1 1.3.1-1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.46.1-1 ii libsystemd0 257.3-1 ii polkitd 126-2 colord recommends no packages. Versions of packages colord suggests: pn colord-sensor-argyll <none> -- no debconf information
