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

[Michael Biebl]

Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> 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.

That's impossible. Hal has already been installed on your computer 
(otherwise you wouldn't have a haldaemon system user with a 
/home/haldaemon homedirectory).
So, as I said, I can only guess that you have (unconsciously) deleted 
the haldaemon group. Please double check if a group wid gid 122 exists.

Imho not a bug in hal.
Just delete the incomplete haldaemon user account and reinstall hal.

Cheers,
Michael

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