Package: dbus Version: 1.4.12-4 Severity: normal I did a routine apt-get upgrade, and found that dbus failed to install.
Setting up dbus (1.4.12-4) ... adduser: The user `messagebus' already exists. Exiting. dpkg: error processing dbus (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of udisks: udisks depends on dbus; however: Package dbus is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing udisks (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of dbus-x11: dbus-x11 depends on dbus; however: Package dbus is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing dbus-x11 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of avahi-daemon: avahi-daemon depends on dbus (>= 0.60); however: Package dbus is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing avahi-daemon (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: dbus udisks dbus-x11 I `fixed' it by killing the dbus daemon, deleting the messagebus user and group, and running dpkg --configure -a -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (300, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages dbus depends on: ii adduser 3.113 add and remove users and groups ii libc6 2.13-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libdbus-1-3 1.4.12-4 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libexpat1 2.0.1-7 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libselinux1 2.0.98-1.1 SELinux runtime shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.2-27 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip dbus recommends no packages. Versions of packages dbus suggests: iu dbus-x11 1.4.12-4 simple interprocess messaging syst -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org