Bastian Blank wrote: > severity 499014 serious > thanks > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 07:06:24AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: >> There was no further information provided. So the only possible >> explanation for this scenario is, that the user either >> 1.) Deleted the messagebus group >> 2.) Created the messagebus user himself without the corresponding >> messagebus group >> 3.) Copied /etc/passwd around (without the corresponding /etc/group) >> 4.) A bug in adduser (highly unlikely) > > The package is not able to recover from error conditions, in this case a > missing group. How this happened is irrelevant.
I beg to disagree. There is a always a way how one can make a package fail to install (just try to delete sed or awk). The question is, what can be expected about the consistency of the system or not (like sed being available or passwd in a consistend state) Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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