Package: plocate Version: 1.1.12-1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
I'm encountering this: [... apt-get dist-upgrade ...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Extracting templates from packages: 100% dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: unknown system group 'plocate' in statoverride file; the system group got removed before the override, which is most probably a packaging bug, to recover you can remove the override manually with dpkg-statoverride E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Related log from /var/log/apt/term.log from the PREVIOUS upgrade: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Log started: 2021-10-07 22:55:21 (Reading database ... (Reading database ... 5% (Reading database ... 10% (Reading database ... 15% (Reading database ... 20% (Reading database ... 25% (Reading database ... 30% (Reading database ... 35% (Reading database ... 40% (Reading database ... 45% (Reading database ... 50% (Reading database ... 55% (Reading database ... 60% (Reading database ... 65% (Reading database ... 70% (Reading database ... 75% (Reading database ... 80% (Reading database ... 85% (Reading database ... 90% (Reading database ... 95% (Reading database ... 100% (Reading database ... 270379 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../base-files_12_amd64.deb ... Unpacking base-files (12) over (11.1) ... Setting up base-files (12) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/debian_version ... Installing new version of config file /etc/issue ... Installing new version of config file /etc/issue.net ... [...] Preparing to unpack .../107-mlocate_1.1.12-1_all.deb ... Unpacking mlocate (1.1.12-1) over (0.26-5) ... Selecting previously unselected package plocate. Preparing to unpack .../108-plocate_1.1.12-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking plocate (1.1.12-1) ... [...] Setting up plocate (1.1.12-1) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/updatedb.conf ... update-alternatives: warning: alternative /usr/bin/mlocate (part of link group locate) doesn't exist; removing from list of alternatives update-alternatives: warning: /etc/alternatives/locate is dangling; it will be updated with best choice update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/plocate to provide /usr/bin/locate (locate) in auto mode Adding group `plocate' (GID 158) ... cannot connect to /var/run/nscd/socket cannot connect to /var/run/nscd/socket cannot connect to /var/run/nscd/socket cannot connect to /var/run/nscd/socket cannot connect to /var/run/nscd/socket Done. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Severity accordingly because this breaks dpkg and requires manual recovery. -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/lksh Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages plocate depends on: ii libc6 2.32-4 ii libgcc-s1 11.2.0-8 ii libstdc++6 11.2.0-8 ii liburing1 0.7-3 ii libzstd1 1.4.8+dfsg-3 plocate recommends no packages. Versions of packages plocate suggests: pn systemd-sysv | nocache <none> pn systemd-sysv | powermgmt-base <none> -- no debconf information
