27/05/2011 10:45, Ferdinand Thommes wrote: > Hi, > I cannot confirm this, upgrading from 4.6.2 to 4.6.3 on a unstable > system. Everything went fine on 32 and 64-bit. No errors at all.
Like I said it's an upgrade from Wheezy (kdm 4:4.4.5-9), not an experimental or Sid version. My questions are do you have a kdm group (/etc/group) or not ? If so with which GID, and what is kdm system user "standard" UID ? > Great work, *many thanks* to debian-kde team. > > 2011/5/27 [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > > Hi everyone, I was thrilled this morning to see KDE 4.6 landing in Sid, > great ! > > When upgrading from Wheezy to the current Sid version I got a > post-install error leaving kdm in a broken state. Looking into it I > found that the "adduser" command from /var/lib/dpkg/info/kdm.postinst > was the culprit, spitting errors about an non existing ID in the 62455 > range (decrementing -1 every new error). > So I created manually a kdm system user and group with: > > adduser --system --group --no-create-home kdm > > (original postinstall command is without --group) > > and also took care of: > > chown -R kdm /var/lib/kdm > > Then kdm installed fine. > > Now everything works, but did anyone else encounter this error (didn't > find it in the BTS) ? Is what I did a foolish move and KDE will explode > in my face at some point ? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

