Public bug reported: on a noble system with no freeradius packages, installing and then immediately purging the freeradius-common package results in an error that "warn: The group `freerad' does not exist."
$ sudo apt install freeradius-common;sudo apt purge freeradius-common Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: freeradius-common 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded. Need to get 246 kB of archives. After this operation, 1308 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/main amd64 freeradius-common all 3.2.5+dfsg-3~ubuntu24.04.3 [246 kB] Fetched 246 kB in 0s (6826 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package freeradius-common. (Reading database ... 47198 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../freeradius-common_3.2.5+dfsg-3~ubuntu24.04.3_all.deb ... Unpacking freeradius-common (3.2.5+dfsg-3~ubuntu24.04.3) ... Setting up freeradius-common (3.2.5+dfsg-3~ubuntu24.04.3) ... Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: freeradius-common* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 6 not upgraded. After this operation, 1308 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 47486 files and directories currently installed.) Removing freeradius-common (3.2.5+dfsg-3~ubuntu24.04.3) ... (Reading database ... 47198 files and directories currently installed.) Purging configuration files for freeradius-common (3.2.5+dfsg-3~ubuntu24.04.3) ... warn: The group `freerad' does not exist. ** Affects: freeradius (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: noble -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2120324 Title: user freerad does not exist To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freeradius/+bug/2120324/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
