Public bug reported:
When trying to install all the ganglia stack I got this error:
$ LANG=C sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up ganglia-monitor (3.1.7-2) ...
Adding system user: ganglia.
useradd: group ganglia exists - if you want to add this user to that group, use
-g.
dpkg: error processing ganglia-monitor (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 9
Setting up gmetad (3.1.7-2) ...
Adding system user: ganglia.
useradd: group ganglia exists - if you want to add this user to that group, use
-g.
dpkg: error processing gmetad (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 9
Errors were encountered while processing:
ganglia-monitor
gmetad
$
$ grep ganglia /etc/passwd
$ grep ganglia /etc/group
ganglia:x:999:
$
$ LANG=C dpkg -l ganglia*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version
Description
+++-============================================-============================================-
iF ganglia-monitor 3.1.7-2
cluster monitoring toolkit - node daemon
ii ganglia-webfrontend 3.1.7-2
cluster monitoring toolkit - web front-end
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: ganglia-monitor 3.1.7-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.21-generic 3.0.6
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 25 10:34:34 2011
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ganglia
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-15 (10 days ago)
** Affects: ganglia (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug oneiric
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group creation fail on installation
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