[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#727057: Bug#727057: network-manager: Fails to install if netdev group already exists

[Michael Biebl]

Am 22.10.2013 00:24, schrieb Andrew Ruthven:
> On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 00:05 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> This getent check is not necessary:
>> # addgroup --system netdev
>> addgroup: The group `netdev' already exists as a system group. Exiting.
>> # echo $?
>> 0
>>
>> If addgroup fails for you, please file a bug against adduser.
> 
> Sadly if the group is not a system group, then it exits with return code
> 1 and a warning that the GID isn't in the system group range.
> 
> This may be an edge case, but it certainly stopped network-manager from
> upgrading.

The network-manager package never created a non-system group for netdev.
So I assume you once created that manually/yourself?

Erring out at this case is probably the right thing to do so you can fix
up this situation.


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