Group information may have been corrupted so removed group. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to base-passwd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1612499
Title: base-passwd install fails during 16.04 upgrade Status in base-passwd package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Description: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS Release: 16.04 While upgrading from 14.04 lts to 16.04 lts, I got an error (from /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt-term.log): Writing passwd-file to /etc/passwd Writing shadow-file to /etc/shadow Writing group-file to /etc/group Error writing group-entry: Invalid argument dpkg: error processing package base-passwd (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 4 Errors were encountered while processing: base-passwd When I try to install the package manually using "apt-get install base-passwd": After this operation, 10.2 kB disk space will be freed. Setting up base-passwd (3.5.39) ... Removing group "apple" (99) 1 changes have been made, rewriting files Writing passwd-file to /etc/passwd Writing shadow-file to /etc/shadow Writing group-file to /etc/group Error writing group-entry: Invalid argument dpkg: error processing package base-passwd (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 4 Errors were encountered while processing: base-passwd E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I apologize ahead of time since I'm new to this. I already tried to search for this problem but could not find it. Thank you. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-passwd/+bug/1612499/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
