monipol wrote: > On 11/07/2009, at 19:35, Sean Lake wrote: > >> I'm attempting to upgrade dbus to version dbus-1.2.14-2 . The build >> fails with error: >> >> autoreconf: Leaving directory `.' >> /var/tmp/tmp.1.f2VYfB >> #!/bin/sh -ev >> >> MBID=`id -u messagebus 2>/dev/null || echo 0` >> id -u messagebus 2>/dev/null || echo 0 >> if [ $MBID -eq 0 ]; then >> echo "You must install the 'passwd' package for D-Bus to build >> properly." >> exit 1 >> fi >> You must install the 'passwd' package for D-Bus to build properly. >> ### execution of /var/tmp/tmp.1.f2VYfB failed, exit code 1 >> > > It looks like your system is missing the messagebus user. It should've > been installed by the passwd package. Did you happen to remove it, or > maybe run some application that could've removed it? > > Please tell us what you get if you run that id command, i.e.: > > id -u messagebus > > >> passwd is installed: i passwd 20070812-22 User and group >> entries for daemons >> >> The result of fink --version: fink --version >> Package manager version: 0.29.7 >> Distribution version: selfupdate-rsync Sat Jul 11 15:17:26 2009, >> 10.5, i386 >> >> The other fink install I manage is on a ppc machine, and it isn't >> having this issue. Any tips on how to fix this? >> > > Just out of curiosity, what's the output of the following command? > > grep messagebus /sw/etc/passwd-fink > > At any rate, reinstalling the passwd package should fix the missing > user problem if messagebus is indeed in /sw/etc/passwd-fink, which it > should. Run the following command: > > fink reinstall passwd > > > Cheers, > > -- > monipol > http://finkers.wordpress.com > > Submitting a Fink bug report? Read this: > http://www.finkproject.org/doc/netiquette/index.php > http://finkers.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/bug-reports/ > > Problems with dbus have previously been found often to be due to users having installed passwd and then not having Fink install the new users when prompted; this is why dbus is now set up to fail if its user is missing, I believe. If indeed you do 'fink reinstall passwd' make sure to take the default option and install them.
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