Am 04.08.2015 um 13:35 schrieb ael: > On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 11:11:54PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: >> Am 31.07.2015 um 22:32 schrieb ael: >>> Package: udev >>> Version: 222-2 >>> Severity: normal >>> >>> Setting up udev (222-2) ... >>> addgroup: The group `input' already exists as a system group. Exiting.
Actually, this message is harmless... >> Not a bug in the udev package. The udev package always created the >> "input" group as system group. So it's most likely that you created this >> group yourself as non-system group. The addgroup message is only diagnostic, it doesn't indicate a failure. I was mislead by the bug title. > I have just tried again on the target system. > > 1) I deleted the input group. > 2) I updated udev with apt-get install udev. That worked. > 3) I tried to update systemd-pam but apt-get recommended apt-get -f > install. > 4) apt-get -f install tried to install udev again (why, when it was up > to date?). But then udev again reported failure because of the existing > input group. > > So I now believe that I did not (directly) create "input", but that it > was created by udev itself in a failed previous attempt to upgrade. > > So a problem with cleaning up after a failed upgarde attempt? > Can you add a "set -x" to /var/lib/dpkg/info/udev.postinst to see at which point the postinst fails. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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