I'd try to reinstall passwd. This should produce the correct entries for user and group games (beside others). If this doesn't work out come back to the list. I don't know the correct netinfo command line options.
HTH,
RemiOn Dec 2, 2003, at 12:08 PM, Jason Lamb wrote:
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?
20:38:50 PDT 2003
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
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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