Quoting Oleg Krivosheev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, All > > i'm running potato and just tried to upgrated telnetd to 0.14-1 > and this is what i got: > > Setting up telnetd (0.14-1) ... > adduser: Warning: The home dir you specified already exists. > Adding system user telnetd... > Adding new group telnetd (101). > Adding new user telnetd (101) with group telnetd. > useradd: unknown group telnetd > adduser: `useradd -d /usr/lib/telnetd -g telnetd -s /bin/false -u 101 > telnetd' returned error code 1536. Aborting. > Cleaning up. > Removing user `telnetd'. > userdel: user telnetd does not exist > Removing group `telnetd'. > groupdel: group telnetd does not exist > dpkg: error processing telnetd (--configure): > > > > Any ideas why useradd died? What error 1536 means
More than likely you have nscd running. I'm unaware of a way to circumvent this problem other than running /etc/init.d/nscd stop before doing upgrades that add new users/groups. You should really (according to the description) only have it loaded if you are using slow services for user/group files (eg. LDAP, NIS). Basically (as I understand it), nscd caches passwd, group and host entries to speed up these searches, consequentially calling useradd doesn't refresh the cache when it adds a new passwd/group entry. Therefore, when the user is added it isn't aware of the group that was previously created. I'm not sure if this is a bug or a "feature". And if it is a bug, whether it is against useradd or nscd. -- Ashley Clark
