Bug#1099474: colord: On update dpkg colord exits with fatal: The user `colord' already exists, but is not a system user. Exiting.

[Sebastian Bremicker]

Package: colord
Version: 1.4.7-3
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

on updating colord I encounter

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Setting up colord (1.4.7-3) ...
warn: The home dir /var/lib/colord you specified already exists.
                                                               
fatal: The user `colord' already exists, but is not a system user. Exiting.
dpkg: error processing package colord (--configure):                                                                          
 installed colord package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 13
Errors were encountered while processing:
 colord                                                                                      
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in /etc/passwd the user looks like a system user to me (low uid/gid):

colord:x:114:122:colord colour management daemon,,,:/var/lib/colord:/usr/sbin/nologi

Kind regards

Sebastian Bremicker

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.10.14 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages colord depends on:
ii  acl                                          2.3.2-2+b1
ii  adduser                                      3.143
ii  colord-data                                  1.4.7-3
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.40.0-5
ii  libc6                                        2.41-3
ii  libcolord2                                   1.4.7-3
ii  libcolorhug2                                 1.4.7-3
ii  libdbus-1-3                                  1.16.2-1
ii  libglib2.0-0t64                              2.83.5-1
ii  libgudev-1.0-0                               238-6
ii  libgusb2                                     0.4.9-1+b1
ii  liblcms2-2                                   2.16-2
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0                        126-2
ii  libsane1                                     1.3.1-1
ii  libsqlite3-0                                 3.46.1-1
ii  libsystemd0                                  257.3-1
ii  polkitd                                      126-2

colord recommends no packages.

Versions of packages colord suggests:
pn  colord-sensor-argyll  <none>

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