Satz- und Datentechnik Günter Knab B|ro f|r Systemanalyse und angewandte Mathematik Geiselhofer Strasse 5 92272 Lintach
tel:+49.9627.91261 fax:+49.9627.91262 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.asamnet/~knabguen On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, D & E Radel wrote: > Hi everyone. > > Error installing man-db. Can anyone please tell me how to fix this problem: > > Fetched 334kB in 1m6s (4997B/s) > Selecting previously deselected package man-db. > (Reading database ... 33532 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking man-db (from .../man-db_2.3.16-4_i386.deb) ... > Setting up man-db (2.3.16-4) ... > chown: man.root: invalid user > <-------- this error > dpkg: error processing man-db (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > man-db > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > Not long ago, a whole stack of system user accounts appeared on the KDM > login screen. After, messing around in KDE tools, I got rid of them, but > think > that I have killed them all. However, besides this error, my system seems to > run per usual, with no problems. looks like an missing entry in /etc/passwd: --- /etc/passwd on _my_ system man:x:6:100:man:/var/cache/man:/bin/sh --- May be this entry was accidently deleted, just add it again with your favorite editor. Reinstallation of the package schould finish without error -- gk
