On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 11:46:42 -0800, Remi Mommsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I played a little bit with chown. I can only reproduce this error
> when I specify a group or user which does not exist. You'll need both
> the group and the user games in your Netinfo. Are you sure they are
> there? What happens if you do 'touch test; sudo chown games.games
> test'?
I get the same error. So after creating the test file with the touch
test command, I do, sudo chown games.games test, and I get;
chown: separation of user and group with a period is deprecated
chown: games: Invalid argument
Well that definitely narrowed down the problem. While I do have a group
games on my system, I do not have a user games. If you or anyone else
knows a simple command line command to setup the proper games user, I
would appreciate the syntax. Otherwise does anyone know normally what
the process is for creating the games user? Is it during the
gnome-games install?
>
> Another line of thought: Did you change somehow your /usr/sbin/chown?
> What gives 'what /usr/sbin/chown'?
> /usr/sbin/chown
> Copyright (c) 1988, 1993, 1994
> PROGRAM:chown PROJECT:file_cmds-82 DEVELOPER:root BUILT:Fri Sep 12
20:38:50 PDT 2003
Executing what /usr/sbin/chown gives;
/usr/sbin/chown
Copyright (c) 1988, 1993, 1994
PROGRAM:chown PROJECT:file_cmds-82 DEVELOPER:root BUILT:Fri
Sep 12 20:38:50 PDT 2003
So it seems like chown is ok.
Thanks Remi,
-jl-
>
> So long...
>
> Remi
>
>
> On Dec 2, 2003, at 10:10 AM, Jason Lamb wrote:
>
>> Remi,
>>
>> Thanks for the help. However the current passwd module is already
>> installed. Same error. (I thought that games might not be a group on my
>> system before, so I looked it up in Netinfo, and the group is there..)
>>
>> -jl-
>>
>> On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 10:05:44 -0800, Remi Mommsen wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> while all those warning are harmless but annoying, the real culprit
>>> is that your system does not know the user games. You need to install
>>> the passwd package. It seems to be a missing dependency (maintainer
>>> cc'd).
>>>
>>> I don't know what might be the problem with sawfish. I kept my 1.3-3
>>> version from the 10.2-gcc3.3 tree on 10.3.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>> Remi
>>>
>>> On Dec 2, 2003, at 8:54 AM, Jason Lamb wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've tried searching the list archives and nothing suggested there
>>>> fixed my gnome-games issue. When I tried to install fink (source) clean
>>>> on a new panther installation, I edited the /sw/etc/fink.conf to
>>>> include unstable trees, did a selfupdate-rsync, and update-all, and
>>>> then installed as my first package, bundle-gnome. Two times on two
>>>> clean installs it dies in the same place. After a long string of OMF
>>>> file validation errors like;
>>>>
>>>> OMF file [/sw/share/omf/gnome-user-docs/unix-primer-it.omf] does not
>>>> validate against ScrollKeeper-OMF DTD:
>>>> /sw/share/xml/scrollkeeper/dtds/scrollkeeper-omf.dtd
>>>> Unable to register /sw/share/omf/gnome-user-docs/unix-primer-it.omf
>>>>
>>>> I get;
>>>>
>>>> chown: separation of user and group with a period is deprecated
>>>> chown: games: Invalid argument
>>>> dpkg: error processing gnome-games (--install):
>>>> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>>>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>>>> gnome-games
>>>> ### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 1
>>>> Failed: can't install package gnome-games-1.4.0.4-12
>>>>
>>>> I tried rebuilding a bunch of stuff (suggested in some previous list
>>>> threads), and it always comes up like this. I then try to manually
>>>> install everything EXCEPT gnome-games to complete my bundle-gnome, and
>>>> it seems to install everything ok, except sawfish which dies when it
>>>> tries to see if it has the right version of rep-gtk. It needs 0.14.2 or
>>>> greater (I think), and it dies when it finds 0.18.2 installed.
>>>>
>>>> Additionally this OMF file problem also comes up when I install
>>>> gnumeric. A long string of OMF file validation errors. However that
>>>> installation actually completes. In an effort to correct this I've also
>>>> tried rebuilding scrollkeeper and a bunch of other things suggested in
>>>> previous threads, to no avail. (Stuff like libxml2, etc.)
>>>>
>>>> The strange thing is that right when 10.3 was released I installed it
>>>> on a different computer here (ibook as opposed to this system, my main
>>>> powerbook), and there were of course far fewer packages available in
>>>> the 10.3 tree for fink then, my bundle-gnome installed fine there with
>>>> no errors. I'm not sure if the answer is to try and build bundle-gnome
>>>> from stable trees only, from binary, or what. Any help is appreciated.
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