[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#471667: [D-I] Configuration of passwd during debootstrap fails when run in non-clean target

[Frans Pop]

Package: passwd
Version: 1:4.1.0-2
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i

When during a new installation using Debian Installer the base system
installation step (which uses debootstrap) fails and is retried, the
second installation fails with the following error:

debootstrap: Setting up login (1:4.1.0-2) ...
debootstrap: Setting up passwd (1:4.1.0-2) ...
debootstrap: no matching password file entry in /etc/passwd
debootstrap: delete line 'libuuid:!:13957:0:99999:7:::'? 
debootstrap: pwck: no changes
debootstrap: Please correct the error and rerun `/sbin/shadowconfig on'
debootstrap: dpkg: error processing passwd (--configure):
debootstrap:  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Although running debootstrap on a non-clean target is not preferred,
this does seem like an idempotency issue that should be resolved.

Note that the failure of the initial base installation step is
completely unrelated to passwd: the initial installation of passwd (and
the rest of debootstrap) was without problems.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-rc5 (SMP w/2 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 passwd depends on:
ii  debianutils                   2.28.4     Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                         2.7-9      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libpam-modules                0.99.7.1-6 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam0g                      0.99.7.1-6 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libselinux1                   2.0.59-1   SELinux shared libraries
ii  login                         1:4.1.0-2  system login tools

passwd recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  passwd/password-mismatch:
  passwd/username: fjp
  passwd/password-empty:
  passwd/make-user: true
  passwd/title:
  passwd/user-uid:
  passwd/shadow: true
  passwd/username-bad:
  passwd/user-fullname: