On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 08:04:18PM +0000, Victor wrote:
> Any suggestion?
> I'm reproposing my previous message.
> By the way, when it all happened I was either root or sued from a user login.
> Vittorio
> ---------- Forwarded Message ----------
> Subject: Dselect chown: root.root: invalid group
> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 12:21:53 +0000
> From: Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
>
> Trying to unpack devscripts by means of dselect I've got the following error
[...]
> Setting up devscripts (2.5.8.1) ...
> chown: root.root: invalid group
> dpkg: error processing devscripts (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> devscripts
Do you have a root group?
22:33 $ grep root /etc/group
root:x:0:
Can you perform this operation manually?
22:35 # su alphenglor
22:36 $ touch somefile
22:36 $ ll somefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 alphengl alphengl 0 Apr 29 22:36 somefile
22:36 $ exit
22:36 # chown root.root somefile
22:36 # ls -l somefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 29 22:36 somefile
What is the ownership of /etc/ or /bin/, which are ordinarily root.root?
22:37 $ ll -d /etc/ /bin/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Jan 30 01:52 /bin/
drwxr-xr-x 88 root root 6144 Apr 29 13:16 /etc/
Hope that gets you started.
Rob
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