2011/5/13 Stephen Gran <sg...@debian.org>: > I don't see how this is possible.
It is possible, but under specific circumstances. It happened to me for a service (I don't remember which one) and it was caused by the service removal (directory in /var/run was not deleted), manually deleted the user of that service, installed a new service that added a new system user with the ID used by previous one. Next the reinstall of the first service added a new system user with a different ID than what the directory on /var/run/SERVICE had. In conclusion, it is a corner situation that can only handled by not *ever* removing system users as it was recently decided by consensus on debian-devel. The only question is where (postrm or debhelper) and how to implement it. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
