Package: hal Version: 0.4.8-3 Severity: normal
Installation apparently relies on the chage command, which refuses to work if there is no shadow file. I'm not using a shadow file because, back in some forgotten past, I was warned against mixing shadow passwords and NIS. I'd rather not switch now, and I am (perhaps naively) thinking that HAL should work in either configuration, shadow passwords or not. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ apt-get install hal Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done hal is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded. 4 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up hal (0.4.8-3) ... make: Entering directory `/var/yp' make[1]: Entering directory `/var/yp/vaughan.yp' Updating passwd.byname... Updating passwd.byuid... Updating netid.byname... make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/yp/vaughan.yp' make: Leaving directory `/var/yp' make: Entering directory `/var/yp' make[1]: Entering directory `/var/yp/vaughan.yp' Updating group.byname... Updating group.bygid... Updating netid.byname... make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/yp/vaughan.yp' make: Leaving directory `/var/yp' chage: the shadow password file is not present adduser: `/usr/bin/chage -M 99999 hal' returned error code 3. Aborting. Cleaning up. Removing user `hal'. Removing group `hal'. groupdel: group hal does not exist dpkg: error processing hal (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-volume-manager: gnome-volume-manager depends on hal (>= 0.4.1); however: Package hal is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing gnome-volume-manager (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-desktop-environment: gnome-desktop-environment depends on gnome-volume-manager (>= 1.2.1); however: Package gnome-volume-manager is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing gnome-desktop-environment (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome: gnome depends on gnome-desktop-environment (= 1:2.10.1.1); however: Package gnome-desktop-environment is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing gnome (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: hal gnome-volume-manager gnome-desktop-environment gnome E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12.2 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages hal depends on: ii adduser 3.64 Add and remove users and groups ii dbus-1 0.23.4-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii dbus-glib-1 0.23.4-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libcap1 1:1.10-14 support for getting/setting POSIX. ii libexpat1 1.95.8-3 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libglib2.0-0 2.6.5-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libhal-storage0 0.4.8-3 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libhal0 0.4.8-3 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii pciutils 1:2.1.11-15 Linux PCI Utilities ii udev 0.062-4 /dev/ management daemon ii usbutils 0.71-5 USB console utilities hal recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
