martiell opened a new issue, #154:
URL: https://github.com/apache/couchdb-pkg/issues/154
The postinst script for couchdb-nouveau can fail if the couchdb package is
not yet configured.
If installing both at the same time, the couchdb-nouveau postinst script may
run before the couchdb postinst script that creates the user. In this case, the
`couchdb` user is not yet present when the couchdb-nouveau package is
configured, and its postinst script will fail on the following line, because
the user doesn't exist:
```
chown couchdb:couchdb /opt/couchdb/etc/default.d/10-nouveau.ini
```
## Expected Behavior
It should be possible to install couchdb and couchdb-nouveau in the same
`apt-get` invocation, interactively or in an automated way.
## Current Behavior
This is the end of the output from `sudo apt install couchdb
couchdb-nouveau` after purging both packages and their configuration. (Not
shown: interactive package configuration to select standalone install type,
cookie, admin password, etc)
```
Fetched 67.0 MB in 5s (14.7 MB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously unselected package couchdb.
(Reading database ... 160047 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../couchdb_3.4.0~jammy_arm64.deb ...
Unpacking couchdb (3.4.0~jammy) ...
Selecting previously unselected package couchdb-nouveau.
Preparing to unpack .../couchdb-nouveau_3.4.0~jammy_arm64.deb ...
Unpacking couchdb-nouveau (3.4.0~jammy) ...
Setting up couchdb-nouveau (3.4.0~jammy) ...
chown: invalid user: ‘couchdb:couchdb’
dpkg: error processing package couchdb-nouveau (--configure):
installed couchdb-nouveau package post-installation script subprocess
returned error exit status 1
Setting up couchdb (3.4.0~jammy) ...
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/couchdb.service
→ /lib/systemd/system/couchdb.service.
Processing triggers for man-db (2.10.2-1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
couchdb-nouveau
needrestart is being skipped since dpkg has failed
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
```
The couchdb-nouveau package is left in an unconfigured state.
## Possible Solution
It may be possible to check if the couchdb user exists, and only chown
`10-nouveau.ini` if it does.
I think this may work because the couchdb postinst script changes the
owner:group of `/opt/couchdb/etc/default.d/*` to couchdb:couchdb.
## Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)
1. sudo apt-get remove --purge couchdb couchdb nouveau
2. sudo apt-get install couchdb couchdb nouveau
3. Run through debconf configuration screens interactively with reasonable
values
## Context
I was building packages for 3.4.0-RC4 to evaluate.
As a workaround, the couchdb-nouveau package can be installed in a separate
apt-get invocation after couchdb is already configured.
## Your Environment
* Version used: 3.4.0-RC4
* Browser Name and version: n/a
* Operating System and version (desktop or mobile): Ubuntu Jammy
* Link to your project: n/a
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