-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 09:33:45PM +0200, Michael Luecke wrote: > Hello, > > I have a fresh installation of Debian jessie. As I wanted to install > 'openssh-client' it stops with an error in groupadd [...] [...] > groupadd: failure while writing changes to /etc/group > addgroup: `/usr/sbin/groupadd -g 117 ssh' returned error code 10. Exiting. > dpkg: error processing package openssh-client (--configure):
Three things come to mind: - the file system might be mounted read-only (perhaps as a consequence of errors). Mount -a would give the answer - the file(s) might have the immutable attribute set. You can find that out by doing an "lsattr /etc/group*" - some SELinux policy is playing games on you. On this, I must defer to more knowledgeable folks regards - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlceeJ8ACgkQBcgs9XrR2kbe2QCcD6E4sIBJ+3hetjQ+9QvyWoqb tEcAnApAXFq7ffey4QBiPJahlOyCUZMg =2OUd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----