Re: Dselect chown: root.root: invalid group
Any suggestion? I'm reproposing my previous message. By the way, when it all happened I was either root or sued from a user login. Vittorio -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Dselect chown: root.root: invalid group Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 12:21:53 + From: Victor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Trying to unpack devscripts by means of dselect I've got the following error and the package has emained unconfigured: . . ... (Reading database ... 85443 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking devscripts (from .../devel/devscripts_2.5.8.1.deb) ... Setting up devscripts (2.5.8.1) ... chown: root.root: invalid group dpkg: error processing devscripts (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: devscripts E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the packages that were installed. .. Setting up devscripts (2.5.8.1) ... chown: root.root: invalid group dpkg: error processing devscripts (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: devscripts installation script returned error exit status 100. . . ... I came across the same problem while unpacking lprng What does it mean and how can I fix it? Ciao Vittorio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
Re: Dselect chown: root.root: invalid group
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 08:04:18PM +, Victor wrote: Any suggestion? I'm reproposing my previous message. By the way, when it all happened I was either root or sued from a user login. Vittorio -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Dselect chown: root.root: invalid group Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 12:21:53 + From: Victor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Trying to unpack devscripts by means of dselect I've got the following error [...] Setting up devscripts (2.5.8.1) ... chown: root.root: invalid group dpkg: error processing devscripts (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: devscripts Do you have a root group? 22:33 $ grep root /etc/group root:x:0: Can you perform this operation manually? 22:35 # su alphenglor 22:36 $ touch somefile 22:36 $ ll somefile -rw-r--r--1 alphengl alphengl0 Apr 29 22:36 somefile 22:36 $ exit 22:36 # chown root.root somefile 22:36 # ls -l somefile -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Apr 29 22:36 somefile What is the ownership of /etc/ or /bin/, which are ordinarily root.root? 22:37 $ ll -d /etc/ /bin/ drwxr-xr-x2 root root 2048 Jan 30 01:52 /bin/ drwxr-xr-x 88 root root 6144 Apr 29 13:16 /etc/ Hope that gets you started. Rob -- Rule of Defactualization: Information deteriorates upward through bureaucracies.
Dselect chown: root.root: invalid group
Trying to unpack devscripts by means of dselect I've got the following error and the package has emained unconfigured: . (Reading database ... 85443 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking devscripts (from .../devel/devscripts_2.5.8.1.deb) ... Setting up devscripts (2.5.8.1) ... chown: root.root: invalid group dpkg: error processing devscripts (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: devscripts E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the packages that were installed. .. Setting up devscripts (2.5.8.1) ... chown: root.root: invalid group dpkg: error processing devscripts (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: devscripts installation script returned error exit status 100. . I came across the same problem while unpacking lprng What does it mean and how can I fix it? Ciao Vittorio
