# apt-get purge ntp
# apt-get install ntp
worked for me. (ubuntu 11.10 upgrade)
Doing remove instead of purge was not enough.
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postinst has:
adduser --system --quiet --group --no-create-home ntp || :
chown -R ntp:ntp /var/lib/ntp /var/log/ntpstats
If adduser fails for any reason (and with --quiet and || : it's hard to
know), then chown would fail.
Can you (or any of the 9 people affected by this bug) reproduce after
Hi Chuck,
Thanks, I don't get anymore the error after adding the group. However,
the user ntp does not belong to this group.
Regards,
Bruno.
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package ntp 1:4.2.4p6+dfsg-1ubuntu5.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess
installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Thanks for the bug report, as a work around for now you do the
following:
sudo addgroup ntp
Ill have a look at this again for lucid.
Regards
chuck
** Changed in: ntp (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Medium
** Changed in: ntp (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Triaged
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