Public bug reported: When trying to run this manually from /var/lib/dpkg/info/tomcat9.postinst: systemd-sysusers Creating group tomcat with gid 998. Creating user tomcat (Apache Tomcat) with uid 998 and gid 998. Segmentation fault
We are fairly certain this is related to https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6512 Some groups have lots of members (290+) which can make /etc/gshadow lines long ------------------------------------------------ OS Info: Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS Release: 18.04 Codename: bionic ------------------------------------------------ Package Install: sudo apt-get install tomcat9 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: tomcat9-admin tomcat9-docs tomcat9-examples tomcat9-user Recommended packages: libtcnative-1 The following NEW packages will be installed: tomcat9 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 20 not upgraded. Need to get 35.9 kB of archives. After this operation, 306 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://internal_mirror/bionic-upstream-unstable bionic/main amd64 tomcat9 all 9.0.16-3ubuntu0.18.04.1 [35.9 kB] Fetched 35.9 kB in 0s (366 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package tomcat9. (Reading database ... 153075 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../tomcat9_9.0.16-3ubuntu0.18.04.1_all.deb ... Unpacking tomcat9 (9.0.16-3ubuntu0.18.04.1) ... Setting up tomcat9 (9.0.16-3ubuntu0.18.04.1) ... Creating group tomcat with gid 998. Creating user tomcat (Apache Tomcat) with uid 998 and gid 998. Segmentation fault dpkg: error processing package tomcat9 (--configure): installed tomcat9 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 139 Errors were encountered while processing: tomcat9 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ** Affects: tomcat9 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1848614 Title: systemd-sysusers exits with Segmentation fault while creating the tomcat user To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tomcat9/+bug/1848614/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
