Your message dated Sat, 18 Feb 2017 17:30:00 +0000
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and subject line Re: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#841862: xml-core: configure xml-core
fails when group staff does not exist
has caused the Debian Bug report #841862,
regarding xml-core: configure xml-core fails when group staff does not exist
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Package: xml-core
Version: 0.16
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
[UPGRADE] xml-core:amd64 0.15 -> 0.16
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
aptitude -y reinstall xml-core
* What was the outcome of this action?
Setting up xml-core (0.16) ...
chown: invalid group: 'root:staff'
dpkg: error processing package xml-core (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
* What outcome did you expect instead?
Execution of /var/lib/dpkg/info/xml-core.postinst without error.
* Additional information
The files are owned by root:
# ls -ld /usr/local/share /usr/local/share/xml /usr/local/share/xml/*
drwxrwsr-x 12 root root 4096 Oct 23 23:37 /usr/local/share
drwxr-sr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 23 23:38 /usr/local/share/xml
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 23 23:38 /usr/local/share/xml/declaration
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (30, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages xml-core depends on:
ii sed 4.2.2-8
ii sgml-base 1.28
xml-core recommends no packages.
Versions of packages xml-core suggests:
ii debhelper 10.2.2
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
On Mon, 7 Nov 2016 14:48:54 +0000 Mattia Rizzolo <[email protected]> wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 debhelper
>
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 11:49:48PM +0200, pada wrote:
> [...]
>
> > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
> > ineffective)?
> >
> > aptitude -y reinstall xml-core
>
> And I can't reproduce it.
>
> > * What was the outcome of this action?
> >
> > Setting up xml-core (0.16) ...
> > chown: invalid group: 'root:staff'
> > dpkg: error processing package xml-core (--configure):
> > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>
> the staff group exists since before I was born, and I'd expect to find
> it in any system (it's installed by base-passwd).
> If I read that error right it's complaining about that, right?
>
> [...]
>
> --
> regards,
> Mattia Rizzolo
>
> GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`.
> more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' :
> Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri `. `'`
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Hi,
I am closing this as not reproducible (except be means of removing the
"staff" group which is not supported).
Thanks,
~Niels
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