On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, john smith wrote: > hi, > when I try to install qmail after building it I get the error: > > green:/tmp/qmail# dpkg -i qmail_1.03-12_i386.deb > (Reading database ... 28966 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking qmail (from qmail_1.03-12_i386.deb) ... > Performing install > First installation of the Debian qmail package... > Checking if qmail is already installed on this computer... no. > Checking group qmail (gid 64010)... error! > Group qmail has gid 70 instead of 64010 > Checking user alias (uid 64010, gid 65534, homedir /var/qmail/alias)... > error! > User alias has uid 70 instead of 64010 blablabla... > 8 entries have errors. Please correct these errors and reinstall qmail. > dpkg: error processing qmail_1.03-12_i386.deb (--install): > subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2 > Errors were encountered while processing: > qmail_1.03-12_i386.deb > > what's this mean and how do I fix it? >
I looked in /etc/passwd and saw that it has users qmail,qmails etc.(with the uids that caused the error), despite that I don't have qmail installed. So you should remove them, as it seems that qmail recreates these users anyway.
