Bug#655515: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#655515: Bug in ntp.postinst

2013-04-18 Thread Gerald Turner
Kurt Roeckx writes: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 01:26:43PM -0700, Gerald Turner wrote: >> I hacked around the problem by appending '|| true' expressions to the >> postinst addgroup/adduser commands. > > Since we don't say which gid to use, that can't be a reason to fail. > It also never failed here

Bug#655515: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#655515: Bug in ntp.postinst

2013-04-18 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 01:26:43PM -0700, Gerald Turner wrote: > + addgroup --system --quiet ntp > > # man addgroup > ... > EXIT VALUES > ... > 1 Creating the user or group failed because it was already present > with other UID/GID than specified. The username or groupname was > rejec

Bug#655515: Bug in ntp.postinst

2013-04-18 Thread Gerald Turner
Hello, I dist-upgraded from squeeze to testing and had the exact problem described by Martin Eichenberg, however the suggestions provided by Michael Stapelberg didn't help. I believe I have found the problem: # dpkg --configure --pending --debug=2 Setting up ntp (1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-2) ... D02: f