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

[Richard Kettlewell]

Michael Biebl writes:
> 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?

No.  hal has yet to complete installation successfully on this system;
I reported another bug about this a few days back.

ttfn/rjk