Package: dbus
Version: 1.2.1-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch
The postinst script on configure stage try to adduser,
which is present on system, as such package installation failed.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-amd64-custom (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages dbus depends on:
ii adduser 3.107 add and remove users and groups
ii debianutils 2.28.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.1-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libexpat1 1.95.8-4 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libselinux1 2.0.59-1 SELinux shared libraries
ii lsb-base 3.2-10 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
Versions of packages dbus recommends:
ii dbus-x11 1.2.1-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
-- no debconf information
--- dbus.postinst 2008-04-18 20:09:26.000000000 +0400
+++ /var/lib/dpkg/info/dbus.postinst 2008-04-18 20:11:19.000000000 +0400
@@ -9,13 +9,15 @@
LAUNCHER=/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper
if [ "$1" = configure ]; then
- adduser --system \
- --home "$MESSAGEHOME" \
- --no-create-home \
- --disabled-password \
- --group "$MESSAGEUSER"
+ if ! getent passwd messagebus &>/dev/null; then
+ adduser --system \
+ --home "$MESSAGEHOME" \
+ --no-create-home \
+ --disabled-password \
+ --group "$MESSAGEUSER"
- chown "$MESSAGEUSER":"$MESSAGEUSER" "$MESSAGEHOME"
+ chown "$MESSAGEUSER":"$MESSAGEUSER" "$MESSAGEHOME"
+ fi
if ! dpkg-statoverride --list "$LAUNCHER" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
chown root:"$MESSAGEUSER" "$LAUNCHER"
