Hi Martin, Excerpts from Martin Eichenberg's message of 2012-03-09 21:58:27 +0100: > ~# grep ntp /etc/passwd > ntp:x:114:114::/home/ntp:/bin/false > ntpd:x:5014:107::/home/ntpd:/bin/flase > ~# grep ntp /etc/group > ntpd:x:107: > ntp:x:5021: The high group id seems to be the problem here.
Note that there is a mismatch: Your /etc/passwd says ntp has the uid 114 and gid 114, however in /etc/group, the group 'ntp' has gid 5021. I’m not sure why that is. You could do 'grep 114 /etc/group' and see which group 114 is on your system. Also, try the following: # addgroup --system ntp (dpkg tries addgroup --system --quiet ntp, which is why you don’t get a proper error message in this case :-/. See line 8223 of your strace output.) This will probably complain and say: addgroup: The group `ntp' already exists and is not a system group. Exiting. A way to fix this is to change the gid of the ntp group back to 114, if 114 is available. If 114 is taken by any other group, delete the entry 'ntp:x:5021:' from your /etc/group and run addgroup --system ntp. Afterwards, you should find all files which belong to ntp on your system and fix their group, if necessary: # find / -uid 114 On my system, all files which are owned by ntp also have gid ntp, and those are the following paths: /var/log/ntpstats /var/lib/ntp /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift Best regards, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
