Bug#386293: passwd: no matching group file entry in /etc/gshadow
Hi, I just ran into this problem too. I manually added the user and group to /etc/passwd, /etc/group. I also needed to edit /etc/shadow because passwd was once installed in the chroot and enabled it. You get some strange error messages if /etc/shadow exists, but the user isn't in it. Removing the passwd package still keeps it enabled. Anyway, I didn't know about gshadow, so I didn't fix that. I don't have passwd installed in my chroot because it's not essential. This also means that apt does not prompt about removing it. It might be a required package, but nothing says you can't remove those. I've just tried turning it off, which failed because the group was missing, so I added it and turned it off, which fixed things for me. But it's now enabled again, since passwd was installed again, and the group is added again. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#386293: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#386293: passwd: no matching group file entry in /etc/gshadow
Unpacking passwd (from .../passwd_1%3a4.0.18.1-2_i386.deb) ... Setting up passwd (4.0.18.1-2) ... no matching group file entry in /etc/gshadow add group 'plugdev' in /etc/gshadow ?grpck: no changes Please correct the error and rerun `/sbin/shadowconfig on' dpkg: error processing passwd (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: passwd E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) When did this happen? shadowconfig is supposed to be run on *new installs* onlyso that would mean that you're installing passwd: 1) during a new Debian install 2) on a system that had no passwd package before 1) we never got this in D-I reports and anyway havong an inconsistent group/gshadow coupld would be surprising 2) passwd is a required package so removing it from a Debian system requires specific admin actionwhich is not supported (aka you deserve what happens I may miss a 3) case, but please explain and give more context. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#386293: passwd: no matching group file entry in /etc/gshadow
Package: passwd Version: 1:4.0.18.1-2 Severity: important I cannot install passwd on my debian machine: $ sudo apt-get install -t unstable passwd Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libselinux1 The following NEW packages will be installed passwd The following packages will be upgraded: libselinux1 1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 57 not upgraded. Need to get 841kB of archives. After unpacking 2171kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Get: 1 http://ftp.debian.org unstable/main libselinux1 1.30.26-2 [57.7kB] Get: 2 http://ftp.debian.org unstable/main passwd 1:4.0.18.1-2 [784kB] Fetched 841kB in 1s (464kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 17161 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libselinux1 1.30-1 (using .../libselinux1_1.30.26-2_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libselinux1 ... Setting up libselinux1 (1.30.26-2) ... Selecting previously deselected package passwd. (Reading database ... 17161 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking passwd (from .../passwd_1%3a4.0.18.1-2_i386.deb) ... Setting up passwd (4.0.18.1-2) ... no matching group file entry in /etc/gshadow add group 'plugdev' in /etc/gshadow ?grpck: no changes Please correct the error and rerun `/sbin/shadowconfig on' dpkg: error processing passwd (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: passwd E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Thanks -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (989, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686-smp Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages passwd depends on: ii debianutils 2.17 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libpam-modules 0.79-3.1 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam0g0.79-3.1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libselinux1 1.30.26-2SELinux shared libraries ii login 1:4.0.18.1-1 system login tools passwd recommends no packages. -- debconf information: passwd/password-mismatch: * passwd/username: mathieu passwd/password-empty: passwd/md5: false passwd/user-uid: passwd/shadow: true passwd/username-bad: * passwd/user-fullname: Mathieu Malaterre passwd/make-user: true passwd/title: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
