[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#316271: nagios install fails "chage: can't open shadow password fileadduser"

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Package: nagios-common
Version: 1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.1

Installation of nagios-common fails with the following error:

Unpacking nagios-common (from
.../nagios-common_2%3a1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.1_all.deb) ...
chage: can't open shadow password fileadduser: `/usr/bin/chage -M 99999
nagios' returned error code 1.  Aborting.
Cleaning up.
Removing user `nagios'.
Removing group `nagios'.
groupdel: group nagios does not exist
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/nagios-common_2%3a1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.1_all.deb
(--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Reloading web server config...done.
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/nagios-common_2%3a1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


this is a fresh install.