[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#634475: Bug#634475: dbus: Fails to install if messagebus user already present.

[Michael Biebl]

Am 19.07.2011 17:07, schrieb Simon McVittie:
> On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 at 09:54:02 +1000, Peter Chubb wrote:
>> Package: dbus
>> Version: 1.4.12-4
>>
>> I did a routine apt-get upgrade, and found that dbus failed to install.
>>
>> Setting up dbus (1.4.12-4) ...
>> adduser: The user `messagebus' already exists. Exiting.
>> dpkg: error processing dbus (--configure):

Probably /etc/passwd and /etc/group got out of sync.
Do you have a messagebus user but no corresponding group?
What does
grep messagebus /etc/passwd /etc/group
say?

Michael
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