[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#570012: puppetmaster fails to start: puppet user missing

[Mathias Gug]

Package: puppetmaster
Severity: normal

While trying to install puppetmaster *without* the puppet package the
puppetmaster daemon failed to start:

Setting up puppetmaster (0.25.4-1ubuntu1) ...
chown: invalid user: `puppet:puppet'
 * Starting puppet configuration management tool master server
 * Could not prepare for execution: Got 6 failure(s) while initializing:
 * change from absent to directory failed: Could not find group puppet;
 * change from absent to directory failed: Could not find group puppet;
 * change from absent to directory failed: Could not find group puppet;
 * change from absent to directory failed: Could not find group puppet;
 * change from absent to directory failed: Could not find group puppet;
 * Failed to retrieve current state of resource: Could not find group
 * puppet
                                                                          [fail]

The puppet user and group are created as part of the puppet postinst
script. This should probably be moved to the puppet-common package instead.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers lucid-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'lucid-updates'), (500, 'lucid-security'), (500, 'lucid')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-25-server (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash