Bug#351609: hal fails to install: group 108 already exists
reassign 351609 adduser thanks, On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 11:46:37AM +, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Thomer M. Gil said: > > When installing hal, I get: > > > > (Reading database ... 72238 files and directories currently installed.) > > Unpacking hal (from .../archives/hal_0.5.6-2_i386.deb) ... > > Setting up hal (0.5.6-2) ... > > groupadd: GID 108 is not unique > > adduser: `/usr/sbin/groupadd -g 108 hal' returned error code 4. Aborting. > > This is an adduser bug, it looks like. See #351480 and #351552. They > are marked as done, but it looks like not. Probably using a too old adduser or something? Anyway, reassigning it to adduser as they probably know what's going on here :) Sjoerd -- The herd instinct among economists makes sheep look like independent thinkers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#351609: hal fails to install: group 108 already exists
This one time, at band camp, Sjoerd Simons said: > reassign 351609 adduser > thanks, > > On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 11:46:37AM +, Stephen Gran wrote: > > This one time, at band camp, Thomer M. Gil said: > > > When installing hal, I get: > > > > > > (Reading database ... 72238 files and directories currently installed.) > > > Unpacking hal (from .../archives/hal_0.5.6-2_i386.deb) ... > > > Setting up hal (0.5.6-2) ... > > > groupadd: GID 108 is not unique > > > adduser: `/usr/sbin/groupadd -g 108 hal' returned error code 4. Aborting. > > > > This is an adduser bug, it looks like. See #351480 and #351552. They > > are marked as done, but it looks like not. > > Probably using a too old adduser or something? Anyway, reassigning it to > adduser as they probably know what's going on here :) The original report said that the version of adduser installed was supposedly the fixed version. However, I see that the fixed version also had a couple of places where the same sort of thing could happen, so I submitted a patch for that. Take care, -- - | ,''`.Stephen Gran | | : :' :[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `'Debian user, admin, and developer | |`- http://www.debian.org | - signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#351609: hal fails to install: group 108 already exists
This one time, at band camp, Thomer M. Gil said: > When installing hal, I get: > > (Reading database ... 72238 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking hal (from .../archives/hal_0.5.6-2_i386.deb) ... > Setting up hal (0.5.6-2) ... > groupadd: GID 108 is not unique > adduser: `/usr/sbin/groupadd -g 108 hal' returned error code 4. Aborting. This is an adduser bug, it looks like. See #351480 and #351552. They are marked as done, but it looks like not. -- - | ,''`.Stephen Gran | | : :' :[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `'Debian user, admin, and developer | |`- http://www.debian.org | - signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#351609: hal fails to install: group 108 already exists
Package: hal Version: 0.5.6-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable When installing hal, I get: (Reading database ... 72238 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking hal (from .../archives/hal_0.5.6-2_i386.deb) ... Setting up hal (0.5.6-2) ... groupadd: GID 108 is not unique adduser: `/usr/sbin/groupadd -g 108 hal' returned error code 4. Aborting. dpkg: error processing hal (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 4 Errors were encountered while processing: hal E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Setting up hal (0.5.6-2) ... groupadd: GID 108 is not unique adduser: `/usr/sbin/groupadd -g 108 hal' returned error code 4. Aborting. dpkg: error processing hal (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 4 Errors were encountered while processing: hal Surprise. Group 108 already exists (it's gdm, on my system). -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages hal depends on: ii adduser 3.81 Add and remove users and groups ii dbus 0.60-5 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libc6 2.3.5-12.1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libdbus-1-2 0.60-5 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.60-5 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libexpat1 1.95.8-3 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libglib2.0-0 2.8.6-1The GLib library of C routines ii libhal1 0.5.6-2Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.11-4 userspace USB programming library ii lsb-base 3.0-15 Linux Standard Base 3.0 init scrip ii pciutils 1:2.1.11-15.3 Linux PCI Utilities ii udev 0.084-3/dev/ and hotplug management daemo ii usbutils 0.71+cvs20051029-4 USB console utilities hal recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
