[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#386293: passwd: no matching group file entry in /etc/gshadow

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Package: passwd
Version: 1:4.0.18.1-2
Severity: important


I cannot install passwd on my debian machine:

$ sudo apt-get install -t unstable passwd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libselinux1
  The following NEW packages will be installed
    passwd
    The following packages will be upgraded:
      libselinux1
      1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 57 not upgraded.
      Need to get 841kB of archives.
      After unpacking 2171kB of additional disk space will be used.
      Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
      Get: 1 http://ftp.debian.org unstable/main libselinux1 1.30.26-2
      [57.7kB]
      Get: 2 http://ftp.debian.org unstable/main passwd 1:4.0.18.1-2
      [784kB]
      Fetched 841kB in 1s (464kB/s)
      Preconfiguring packages ...
      (Reading database ... 17161 files and directories currently
      installed.)
    Preparing to replace libselinux1 1.30-1 (using
    .../libselinux1_1.30.26-2_i386.deb) ...
    Unpacking replacement libselinux1 ...
    Setting up libselinux1 (1.30.26-2) ...

    Selecting previously deselected package passwd.
    (Reading database ... 17161 files and directories currently
    installed.)
  Unpacking passwd (from .../passwd_1%3a4.0.18.1-2_i386.deb) ...
  Setting up passwd (4.0.18.1-2) ...
  no matching group file entry in /etc/gshadow
  add group 'plugdev' in /etc/gshadow ?grpck: no changes
  Please correct the error and rerun `/sbin/shadowconfig on'
  dpkg: error processing passwd (--configure):
   subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
   Errors were encountered while processing:
    passwd
    E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


Thanks

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (989, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages passwd depends on:
ii  debianutils                 2.17         Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-4  GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libpam-modules              0.79-3.1     Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam0g                    0.79-3.1     Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libselinux1                 1.30.26-2    SELinux shared libraries
ii  login                       1:4.0.18.1-1 system login tools

passwd recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  passwd/password-mismatch:
* passwd/username: mathieu
  passwd/password-empty:
  passwd/md5: false
  passwd/user-uid:
  passwd/shadow: true
  passwd/username-bad:
* passwd/user-fullname: Mathieu Malaterre
  passwd/make-user: true
  passwd/title: