Adduser devel - Apr 2006 - old uml-utilities bug running adduser (#326029)

Hello Adduser people, Steinar,

while reviewing uml-utilities bugs I can''t reproduce #326029 which is
related to an adduser error while setting up the package. Relevant
log from submitter is:

  Setting up uml-utilities (20040406-1) ...
  useradd: unknown group uml-net
  adduser: `/usr/sbin/useradd -d /home/uml-net -g uml-net -s /bin/false -u 254
uml-net'' returned error code 6.  Aborting.
  Cleaning up.
  Removing user `uml-net''.
  userdel: user uml-net does not exist
  Removing group `uml-net''.
  groupdel: group uml-net does not exist
  dpkg: error processing uml-utilities (--configure):
   subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  ...
  Ack!  Something bad happened while installing packages.  Trying to recover:
  Setting up uml-utilities (20040406-1) ...
  groupadd: name uml-net is not unique
  adduser: `/usr/sbin/groupadd -g 255 uml-net'' returned error code 9. 
Aborting.
  Cleaning up.
  Removing group `uml-net''.
  groupdel: group uml-net does not exist
  dpkg: error processing uml-utilities (--configure):
   subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

uml-utilities postins uses the following script :

  if ! getent passwd uml-net >/dev/null; then
      if getent group uml-net >/dev/null; then
  	# earlier versions only created a group
  	adduser --quiet --system --ingroup uml-net --no-create-home uml-net
      else
  	adduser --quiet --system --group --no-create-home uml-net
      fi
  fi

which seem safe to me, and I also tried some combinations of existing
user/existing group without being able to reproduce the bug.

This was on 09/01/2005 I''d say around adduser>=3.67.
Can any of you recognize any known adduser bug? I''ve seen some similar
logs in the BTS (eg: #327804).
Steinar, can you are you still able to reproduce such bug?

Please Cc: me as I''m not subscribed to the adduser lists, thanks.

Thans in advance.
-- 
mattia
:wq!

On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 06:33:25PM +0200, Mattia Dongili
wrote:
> This was on 09/01/2005 I''d say around adduser>=3.67.
> Can any of you recognize any known adduser bug? I''ve seen some
similar
> logs in the BTS (eg: #327804).
> Steinar, can you are you still able to reproduce such bug?
It seems to work fine for me now.

/* Steinar */
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On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 06:36:31PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson
wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 06:33:25PM +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> > This was on 09/01/2005 I''d say around adduser>=3.67.
> > Can any of you recognize any known adduser bug? I''ve seen
some similar
> > logs in the BTS (eg: #327804).
> > Steinar, can you are you still able to reproduce such bug?
> 
> It seems to work fine for me now.
Fine, closing then!

-- 
mattia
:wq!