Adduser devel - Feb 2006 - Bug#351480: exim4-base fails to install with debootstrap

Package: adduser 
Version: 3.81
Severity: serious

I guess it''s a adduser bug;

        adduser --system --group --home /var/spool/exim4 --no-create-home \
                --disabled-login --force-badname Debian-exim > /dev/null

is failing due to new adduser.


O: Adding system-user for exim (v4)
O: groupadd: GID 100 is not unique
O: adduser: `/usr/sbin/groupadd -g 100 Debian-exim'' returned error code
4.  Aborting.
O: Setting up libgnutls12 (1.2.9-2) ...
P: Configuring package libgnutls12
O: dpkg: error processing exim4-config (--configure):
O:  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 4
O: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of exim4-base:
O:  exim4-base depends on exim4-config (>= 4.30) | exim4-config-2; however:
O:   Package exim4-config is not configured yet.
O:   Package exim4-config-2 is not installed.
O:   Package exim4-config which provides exim4-config-2 is not configured yet.
O: dpkg: error processing exim4-base (--configure):
O:  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
O:
O: Setting up libpcre3 (6.4-1.1) ...
P: Configuring package libpcre3
O:
O: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of exim4-daemon-light:
O:  exim4-daemon-light depends on exim4-base (>= 4.60); however:
O:   Package exim4-base is not configured yet.
O: dpkg: error processing exim4-daemon-light (--configure):
O:  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
O: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of at:
O:  at depends on mail-transport-agent; however:
O:   Package mail-transport-agent is not installed.
O:   Package exim4-daemon-light which provides mail-transport-agent is not
configured yet.
O: dpkg: error processing at (--configure):
O:  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
O: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of exim4:
O:  exim4 depends on exim4-base (>= 4.60); however:
O:   Package exim4-base is not configured yet.
O:  exim4 depends on exim4-daemon-light | exim4-daemon-heavy |
exim4-daemon-custom; however:
O:   Package exim4-daemon-light is not configured yet.
O:   Package exim4-daemon-heavy is not installed.
O:   Package exim4-daemon-custom is not installed.
O: dpkg: error processing exim4 (--configure):
O:  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
O: Setting up telnet (0.17-32) ...
P: Configuring package telnet
O:


regards,
	junichi
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dancer@{debian.org,netfort.gr.jp}   Debian Project

tags #351480 confirmed patch moreinfo
reassign #351480 adduser
thanks

On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 03:16:27PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa
wrote:
> I guess it''s a adduser bug;
It is.
>         adduser --system --group --home /var/spool/exim4 --no-create-home \
>                 --disabled-login --force-badname Debian-exim > /dev/null
> 
> is failing due to new adduser.
Looks like adduser 3.81 does falsely assume that uid and gid can be
equal.

Can you try the following patch?

--- adduser     (revision 458)
+++ adduser     (working copy)
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@
            printf STDERR gtx("No UID/GID pair is available in the range
%d-%d (FIRST_SYS_UID -
LAST_SYS_UID).\n"),$config{"first_system_uid"},$config{"last_system_uid"};
             dief (gtx("The user %s'' was not
created.\n"),$new_name);
         }
-        $new_gid = $new_uid;
+        $new_gid =
&first_avail_gid($config{"first_system_gid"},$config{"last_system_gid"});
        $ingroup_name = $new_name;
     }
     elsif (!defined($new_uid) && !$make_group_also) {

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Hi,
> Looks like adduser 3.81 does falsely assume that uid and gid can be
> equal.
> 
> Can you try the following patch?
> 
> --- adduser     (revision 458)
> +++ adduser     (working copy)
> @@ -331,7 +331,7 @@
>             printf STDERR gtx("No UID/GID pair is available in the
range %d-%d (FIRST_SYS_UID -
LAST_SYS_UID).\n"),$config{"first_system_uid"},$config{"last_system_uid"};
>              dief (gtx("The user %s'' was not
created.\n"),$new_name);
>          }
> -        $new_gid = $new_uid;
> +        $new_gid =
&first_avail_gid($config{"first_system_gid"},$config{"last_system_gid"});
>         $ingroup_name = $new_name;
>      }
>      elsif (!defined($new_uid) && !$make_group_also) {
> 
Hmm... this is a bit difficult to check; but I used the following
procedure to verify that your patch fixes the problem:

1. Verify failure
start up a clean chroot; update to latest adduser, remove Debian-exim
user from /etc/passwd, /etc/group, and remove the entry from
/var/lib/dpkg/statoverride;

reinstall exim4-base

Adding system-user for exim (v4)
groupadd: GID 100 is not unique
adduser: `/usr/sbin/groupadd -g 100 Debian-exim'' returned error code 4.
Aborting.
dpkg: error processing exim4-base (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 4
Errors were encountered while processing:
 exim4-base
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)




2. modify adduser and try reinstalling exim4-base

root@dancer64:/# vi /usr/sbin/adduser
root@dancer64:/# apt-get install exim4-base --reinstall
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 30 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Setting up exim4-base (4.60-3) ...
Adding system-user for exim (v4)
chage: the shadow password file is not present

root@dancer64:/# id Debian-exim
uid=100(Debian-exim) gid=102(Debian-exim) groups=102(Debian-exim)


regards,
	junichi
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dancer@{debian.org,netfort.gr.jp}   Debian Project

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