On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 09:24:35PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> >
> > Setting up hal (0.5.11-4) ...
> > adduser: Please enter a username matching the regular expression configured
> > via the NAME_REGEX configuration variable. Use the `--force-badname'
> > option to relax this check or reconfigure NAME_REGEX.
> > dpkg: error processing hal (--configure):
> > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> > hal
> > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> >
> > The postinst script has the following call:
> >
> > adduser --system \
> > --quiet \
> > --disabled-password \
> > --no-create-home \
> > --home "/var/run/hal" \
> > --gecos "Hardware abstraction layer" \
> > --group haldaemon
> >
> > But it seems to miss the user which should be created ("haldaemon").
>
> The adduser call is correct.I doubt it, because I don't see any username; adduser requires one argument if you want to add a user -- the name of the user. > Have you a locally modified /etc/adduser.conf? nope > What does "debsums -a adduser" say? (Install the debsums package for > that to work) Everything ok > What is the output of "whereis adduser"? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo whereis adduser adduser: /usr/sbin/adduser /etc/adduser.conf /usr/share/adduser /usr/share/man/man8/adduser.8.gz > Have you set the NAME_REGEX configuration variable? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ grep "NAME_REGEX" /etc/adduser.conf NAME_REGEX="^[a-z][-a-z0-9\.]*\$" Jörg -- What did you do to the cat? It looks half-dead. -Schroedinger's wife
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