[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#601702: puppet: debconf fails because 'puppet' group does not exist.

[Paul Lussier]

Package: puppet
Version: 2.6.2-1
Severity: minor

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.6
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.35.5 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages puppet depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.110            add and remove users and
groups
ii  facter                  1.5.7-1          a library for retrieving
facts fro
ii  libopenssl-ruby         4.2              OpenSSL interface for Ruby
ii  libruby [libxmlrpc-ruby 4.2              Libraries necessary to run
Ruby 1.
ii  libshadow-ruby1.8       1.4.1-8          Interface of shadow
password for R
ii  libxmlrpc-ruby          4.2              transitional dummy package
ii  lsb-base                3.2-20           Linux Standard Base 3.2
init scrip
ii  puppet-common           2.6.2-1          Centralized configuration
manageme
ii  ruby1.8                 1.8.7.72-3lenny1 Interpreter of
object-oriented scr

Versions of packages puppet recommends:
pn  libaugeas-ruby1.8             <none>     (no description available)
ii  rdoc                          4.2        Generate documentation from
ruby s

Versions of packages puppet suggests:
pn  libselinux-ruby1.8            <none>     (no description available)
pn  puppet-el                     <none>     (no description available)
pn  vim-puppet                    <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information

# apt-get install puppet
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done 
The following extra packages will be installed:
  puppet-common
Suggested packages:
  puppet-el vim-puppet libselinux-ruby1.8
Recommended packages:
  libaugeas-ruby1.8
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  puppet puppet-common
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/958kB of archives. 
After this operation, 4616kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y  
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  puppet-common puppet
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Selecting previously deselected package puppet-common.
(Reading database ... 32737 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking puppet-common (from .../puppet-common_2.6.2-1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package puppet.
Unpacking puppet (from .../puppet_2.6.2-1_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up puppet-common (2.6.2-1) ...
install: invalid group `puppet'   
dpkg: error processing puppet-common (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of puppet:
 puppet depends on puppet-common (= 2.6.2-1); however:
  Package puppet-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing puppet (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 puppet-common
 puppet
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)