On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 01:26:43PM -0700, Gerald Turner wrote: > + addgroup --system --quiet ntp > > # man addgroup > ... > EXIT VALUES > ... > 1 Creating the user or group failed because it was already present > with other UID/GID than specified. The username or groupname was > rejected because of a mismatch with the configured regular > expressions, see adduser.conf(5). Adduser has been aborted by a > signal. Or for many other yet undocumented reasons which are > printed to console then. You may then consider to remove --quiet to > make adduser more verbose. > ... > > I hacked around the problem by appending '|| true' expressions to the > postinst addgroup/adduser commands.
Since we don't say which gid to use, that can't be a reason to fail. It also never failed here ... Maybe it's not a system group for you? What does "getent group ntp" return? Can you run it without the --quiet option? Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
