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

[Richard Kettlewell]

Michael Biebl writes:
> 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?

The system was initialized by xen-create-image.  (I'm sorry I didn't
mention this before!)

My vm host is turned off right now but I can check its configuration
in detail if necessary.

ttfn/rjk