[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#460107: Bug#460107: chown: `haldaemon:haldaemon': invalid group

[Michael Biebl]

Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> Package: hal
> Version: 0.5.10-5
> 
>   richard at deodand:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>   Reading package lists... Done
>   Building dependency tree       
>   Reading state information... Done
>   Calculating upgrade... Done
>   0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>   2 not fully installed or removed.
>   After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
>   Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
>   Setting up hal (0.5.10-5) ...
>   chown: `haldaemon:haldaemon': invalid group
>   dpkg: error processing hal (--configure):
>    subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>   dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-mount:
>    gnome-mount depends on hal; however:
>     Package hal is not configured yet.
>   dpkg: error processing gnome-mount (--configure):
>    dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>   Errors were encountered while processing:
>    hal
>    gnome-mount
>   E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>   richard at deodand:~$ grep hal /etc/group
>   richard at deodand:~$ grep hal /etc/passwd
>   haldaemon:x:108:122:Hardware abstraction layer,,,:/home/haldaemon:/bin/false
>   richard at deodand:~$ 

Have you deleted the haldaemon system group?

Cheers,
Michael

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