On Thu, 16 Aug 2012, gregor herrmann wrote:
I was a bit surprised how you managed to have a system user but not
its home directory. But the incomplete state before (if I'm guessing
right) could explain this.
Yes, the postinst should be idempotent but it looks like what
happened to you is not the "usual" case.
Maybe you can try again with
- apt-get purge bitlbee bitlbee-common
- apt-get install bitlbee
?
Cheers,
gregor
Interesting. I upgraded my sys, used the same packages (?) and now it is
all right. This error was present 2 months ago but maybe i missed
something in the middle.
Anyway, here is the latest log:
$ apt-get purge bitlbee bitlbee-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
bitlbee* bitlbee-common*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 1,078 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 41976 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing bitlbee ...
Stopping BitlBee IRC/IM gateway: bitlbee.
Removing bitlbee-common ...
Purging configuration files for bitlbee-common ...
Removing user `bitlbee' ...
Warning: group `bitlbee' has no more members.
Done.
Processing triggers for man-db ...
$ apt-get install bitlbee
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
bitlbee-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
bitlbee bitlbee-common
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/406 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,078 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously unselected package bitlbee-common.
(Reading database ... 41950 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking bitlbee-common (from .../bitlbee-common_3.0.5-1.1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package bitlbee.
Unpacking bitlbee (from .../bitlbee_3.0.5-1.1_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up bitlbee-common (3.0.5-1.1) ...
Adding system user `bitlbee' (UID 104) ...
Adding new group `bitlbee' (GID 109) ...
Adding new user `bitlbee' (UID 104) with group `bitlbee' ...
Creating home directory `/var/lib/bitlbee/' ...
Starting BitlBee IRC/IM gateway: bitlbee.
Setting up bitlbee (3.0.5-1.1) ...
Strange i must say.
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