Your message dated Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:32:38 +0000
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and subject line Re: Bug#634475: adduser --system in maintainer scripts
has caused the Debian Bug report #634475,
regarding dbus: Fails to install if messagebus user already present.
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634475: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=634475
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: dbus
Version: 1.4.12-4
Severity: normal
I did a routine apt-get upgrade, and found that dbus failed to install.
Setting up dbus (1.4.12-4) ...
adduser: The user `messagebus' already exists. Exiting.
dpkg: error processing dbus (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of udisks:
udisks depends on dbus; however:
Package dbus is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing udisks (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of dbus-x11:
dbus-x11 depends on dbus; however:
Package dbus is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing dbus-x11 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of avahi-daemon:
avahi-daemon depends on dbus (>= 0.60); however:
Package dbus is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing avahi-daemon (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
dbus
udisks
dbus-x11
I `fixed' it by killing the dbus daemon, deleting the messagebus user
and group, and running dpkg --configure -a
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (300, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages dbus depends on:
ii adduser 3.113 add and remove users and groups
ii libc6 2.13-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libdbus-1-3 1.4.12-4 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libexpat1 2.0.1-7 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libselinux1 2.0.98-1.1 SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii lsb-base 3.2-27 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
dbus recommends no packages.
Versions of packages dbus suggests:
iu dbus-x11 1.4.12-4 simple interprocess messaging syst
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 at 14:31:03 +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Simon McVittie said:
> > We use adduser --system --quiet in the dbus package without checking for
> > existence of the user first, as recommended here. However, bug #634475
> > reveals that if the messagebus user is present, but is not in the system UID
> > range, this will make the upgrade fail.
>
> I think it's best to fail in such a way
> that it forces the admin to deal with it.
[...]
> I think for this specific one, a change in local policy made the account
> no longer correct, so again, I think adduser is behaving correctly here.
Based on this, I'm considering this to be "not a bug" in dbus either;
please renumber the messagebus user locally, to get it into the range
you've configured for system users (or alternatively reconfigure adduser
so messagebus is in a valid range for system users again).
messagebus owns /var/run/dbus and is the group-ID of
/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper, but shouldn't own any other files.
Regards,
S
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