Package: distcc
Version: 2.18.1-5
Severity: normal
On one machine (NIS server), "apt-get --purge remove distcc" fails:
# apt-get remove distcc
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
distcc*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 365kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 135599 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing distcc ...
Purging configuration files for distcc ...
make: Entering directory `/var/yp'
make[1]: Entering directory `/var/yp/XXX'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/yp/XXX'
make: Leaving directory `/var/yp'
dpkg: error processing distcc (--purge):
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 128
Errors were encountered while processing:
distcc
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Also trying to reinstall (apt-get --reinstall install distcc) fails:
# apt-get install --reinstall distcc
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not
upgraded.
Need to get 141kB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Get:1 http://my.server.local sarge/main distcc 2.18.1-5 [141kB]
Fetched 141kB in 0s (808kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package distcc.
(Reading database ... 135599 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace distcc 2.18.1-5 (using
.../distcc_2.18.1-5_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement distcc ...
Setting up distcc (2.18.1-5) ...
chown: `distccd:adm': invalid user
dpkg: error processing distcc (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
distcc
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Seems somehow the distccd user has disappeared, but is necessary to
remove/reinstall ...
Adding the user manually with
adduser --quiet --system --ingroup nogroup --home / --no-create-home
distccd
doesn't help on removing distcc, but at least reinstall is possible now.
Seems to be related to NIS ... stopping the NIS server, and *then*
removing distcc works!
Would be nice if the pre-/post-install/rm-scripts could be more robust
regarding the user database.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages distcc depends on:
ii adduser 3.63 Add and remove users and groups
ii debconf 1.4.30.11 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii netbase 4.20 Basic TCP/IP networking system
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