Control: tags -1 - moreinfo
Control: reassign -1 adduser 3.143
Control: affects -1 + src:dbus
On Tue, 04 Mar 2025 at 18:17:51 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On Tue, 2025-03-04 at 15:52 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
On Tue, 04 Mar 2025 at 16:35:45 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> the package dbus-system-bus-common fails to install when the messagebus user
already
> exists which seems to be the case on some systems:
>
> Setting up dbus-system-bus-common (1.16.2-1) ...
> fatal: The user `messagebus' already exists, but is not a system user.
Exiting.
Specifically, it looks as though on the affected system, the messagebus
user exists outside the Debian-Policy-defined system user range 100-999
(or possibly adduser is misidentifying it as being outside that range).
This is inside a schroot on a buildd and it looks like something recently
changed, either with the dbus package or any other package.
Please provide details of the messagebus user/group? This should do it:
getent passwd messagebus
getent group messagebus
(sid-alpha-sbuild)root@alpha-sc-03:/# getent passwd messagebus
messagebus:x:104:111::/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
(sid-alpha-sbuild)root@alpha-sc-03:/# getent group messagebus
messagebus:x:111:
(sid-alpha-sbuild)root@alpha-sc-03:/#
That's certainly in the range for system users, so I think this looks like
an adduser issue: it seems to be mis-identifying messagebus as being in the
range intended for human users?
Possibly already fixed in adduser git (but not yet in a release) by:
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/adduser/-/commit/9bb8e6c9df53df11e6fd8b851a8a3e0efba1f9aa
smcv
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