Package: uuid-runtime
Version: 2.25.2-6
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where
appropriate ***
* What led up to the situation?
I attempted to upgrade the system via the following command in a
bash shell:
sudo aptitude update; sudo aptitude upgrade;
I was encountered with the output below:
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
uuid-runtime
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not
upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
Setting up uuid-runtime (2.25.2-6) ...
Adding group `uuidd' (GID 122) ...
groupadd: failure while writing changes to /etc/group
addgroup: `/usr/sbin/groupadd -g 122 uuidd' returned error code
10. Exiting.
dpkg: error processing package uuid-runtime (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
uuid-runtime
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Failed to perform requested operation on package. Trying to
recover:
Setting up uuid-runtime (2.25.2-6) ...
Adding group `uuidd' (GID 122) ...
groupadd: failure while writing changes to /etc/group
addgroup: `/usr/sbin/groupadd -g 122 uuidd' returned error code
10. Exiting.
dpkg: error processing package uuid-runtime (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
uuid-runtime
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
I attempted to perform the upgrade as recommended by aptitude.
* What was the outcome of this action?
Failed upgrade.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
Complete the upgrade, with the post-install script properly
processing the
addition of uuidd group.
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.3
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages uuid-runtime depends on:
ii adduser 3.113+nmu3
ii init-system-helpers 1.22
ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u3
ii libsystemd0 215-17+deb8u3
ii libuuid1 2.25.2-6
ii passwd 1:4.2-3+deb8u1
uuid-runtime recommends no packages.
uuid-runtime suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
