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View the commit online: https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=41bc12bd8d518653aa4564d22fea675717391798 commit 41bc12bd8d518653aa4564d22fea675717391798 Author: Guillem Jover <[email protected]> AuthorDate: Fri Feb 1 03:57:54 2019 +0100 dpkg: Clarify error on unknown system user/group in statoverride database Closes: #920880 --- debian/changelog | 2 ++ lib/dpkg/db-fsys-override.c | 10 ++++++---- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 8134a20a5..3d844527b 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ dpkg (1.19.5) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium --force-all for now. * dpkg, dpkg-statoverride: Add new option --refuse-security-mac to control SELinux. See #811037. + * dpkg: Clarify error on unknown system user/group in statoverride database. + Closes: #920880 * Documentation: - start-stop-daemon(1): Document behavior of --pidfile security checks. Closes: #921557 diff --git a/lib/dpkg/db-fsys-override.c b/lib/dpkg/db-fsys-override.c index 981bd1891..e079c5ffb 100644 --- a/lib/dpkg/db-fsys-override.c +++ b/lib/dpkg/db-fsys-override.c @@ -208,8 +208,9 @@ ensure_statoverrides(enum statdb_parse_flags flags) fso->uname = NULL; if (fso->uid == (uid_t)-1 && !(flags & STATDB_PARSE_LAX)) - ohshit(_("unknown user '%s' in statoverride file"), - thisline); + ohshit(_("unknown system user '%s' in statoverride file; the system user got removed\n" + "before the override, which is most probably a packaging bug, to recover you\n" + "can remove the override manually with %s"), thisline, DPKGSTAT); /* Move to the next bit */ thisline = ptr + 1; @@ -229,8 +230,9 @@ ensure_statoverrides(enum statdb_parse_flags flags) fso->gname = NULL; if (fso->gid == (gid_t)-1 && !(flags & STATDB_PARSE_LAX)) - ohshit(_("unknown group '%s' in statoverride file"), - thisline); + ohshit(_("unknown system group '%s' in statoverride file; the system group got removed\n" + "before the override, which is most probably a packaging bug, to recover you\n" + "can remove the override manually with %s"), thisline, DPKGSTAT); /* Move to the next bit */ thisline = ptr + 1; -- Dpkg.Org's dpkg
