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

[Michael Biebl]

Michael Biebl wrote:
> Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>> Michael Biebl writes:

>>> 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.

The reason why I claim this, is this call in hal.postinst

     adduser --system \
             --quiet  \
             --disabled-password \
             --no-create-home \
             --home "/var/run/hal" \
             --gecos "Hardware abstraction layer" \
             --group haldaemon

This adduser call creates the haldaemon group and the haldaemon user in 
one go. The only other possibilty would be a bug in adduser, but I doubt 
that very much.

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

I'm tempted to close this bug. I don't think there is a bug in hal.

Sjoerd, what do you say? Am I missing something?

Cheers,
Michael


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