[Pkg-gtkpod-devel] Bug#1009802: Warning: The home dir /var/lib/usbmux you specified can't be accessed: No such file or directory

[Diederik de Haas]

Control: found -1 1.1.1-2
Control: found -1 1.1.1-3+b1

On 18 Apr 2022 12:23:29 -0700 Scott Corcoran <scott at scott-corcoran.com> wrote:
> Good catch:
> 
> ~ # apt list | grep usbmuxd
> 
> libusbmuxd-dev/testing 2.0.2-3 amd64
> libusbmuxd-tools/testing 2.0.2-3 amd64
> libusbmuxd6/testing,now 2.0.2-3 amd64 [installed,automatic]
> usbmuxd/testing,now 1.1.1-2 amd64 [installed,automatic]

Setting the found version to that version.
And as I just ran into this problem too, add my version too.

I installed upower and as one of its dependencies, usbmuxd got installed too:

```
Selecting previously unselected package usbmuxd.
Preparing to unpack .../5-usbmuxd_1.1.1-3+b1_arm64.deb ...
Unpacking usbmuxd (1.1.1-3+b1) ...
Setting up libplist3:arm64 (2.2.0-7+b1) ...
Setting up libusbmuxd6:arm64 (2.0.2-4+b1) ...
Setting up libupower-glib3:arm64 (1.90.3-1) ...
Setting up libimobiledevice6:arm64 (1.3.0-7.1+b1) ...
Setting up upower (1.90.3-1) ...
upower.service is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it.
Setting up usbmuxd (1.1.1-3+b1) ...
info: The home dir /var/lib/usbmux you specified can't be accessed: No such file or directory

info: Selecting UID from range 100 to 999 ...

info: Adding system user `usbmux' (UID 106) ...
info: Adding new user `usbmux' (UID 106) with group `plugdev' ...
info: Not creating home directory `/var/lib/usbmux'.
```

And indeed /var/lib/usbmux doesn't exist on the system where I installed it on.
It's also installed on my main PC and that doesn't have that dir either.

Shouldn't this bug have a higher severity?
It creates a (system) user and it wants to create a home dir for it, but fails
to do so.
I haven't noticed any adverse affects, so I won't bump the severity, but as I
don't have any iDevice I may not be considered a 'normal' user of the package.
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