This appears to have crept back into latest frr.
Ubuntu 24.04 (frr 8.4.4-1.1ubuntu6.5) includes a guard in postinst:
if getent passwd syslog > /dev/null; then
chown syslog:adm ...
fi
In Ubuntu 25.10 (frr 10.4.1-3ubuntu1.1) the postinst unconditionally
does:
chown syslog:adm /var/log/frr
This causes installation to fail in minimal environments (e.g.
mmdebstrap):
chown: invalid user: 'syslog:adm'
dpkg: error processing package frr (--configure)
The package does not create the syslog user and does not depend on any package
that guarantees its existence.
This is reproducible with:
mmdebstrap ... frr
This matches the original bug description and appears to have been
reintroduced.
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syslog logging does not work
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