Bug#1099474: colord: On update dpkg colord exits with fatal: The user `colord' already exists, but is not a system user. Exiting.
Petter Reinholdtsen
pere at hungry.com
Tue Mar 4 05:28:52 GMT 2025
[Sebastian Bremicker]
> on updating colord I encounter
I ran into this too. I got around it by removing the user before doing the upgrade.
# getent passwd colord
colord:x:105:112:colord colour management daemon,,,:/var/lib/colord:/bin/false
# deluser colord
# apt dist-upgrade
[...]
# getent passwd colord
colord:x:105:112:colord colour management daemon,,,:/var/lib/colord:/usr/sbin/nologin
#
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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen
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