[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#460107: Same problem, when installing in chroot

[Michael Biebl]

Armin Berres wrote:
> Heyya!
> 
> I just tried to install hal in a chroot and got exactly the same error.
> Calling addgroup by hand solved the problem for me. Maybe you should add
> the group before calling adduser just to be sure?
> I copied some stuff from my real system to the chroot, which could be a
> reason, but calling addgroup shouldn't hurt, so...

Hi Richard,

did you do something similar like this:
copy /etc/passwd (but not /etc/group) from another system? Did you have
an older version of hal installed before or was it a clean install?

Michael
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