[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1074789: polkitd: setup uses non-failsafe manner of checking whether user/group exists

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

Package: polkitd
Version: 122-3
Severity: normal

The package's post-install fails as such:

Setting up polkitd (122-3) ...
Failed to check if group polkitd already exists: Connection refused
id: ‘polkitd’: no such user
chown: invalid user: ‘polkitd:root’
dpkg: error processing package polkitd (--configure):
 installed polkitd package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1


Not sure what funky way to check for existing users it uses that it
needs to connect to something, looks like it expects some
network-but-on-same-machine / socket service?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.6
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable'), (400, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
merged-usr: no
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-28-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=fr_LU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_LU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages polkitd depends on:
ii  adduser                         3.134
ii  dbus [default-dbus-system-bus]  1.14.10-1~deb12u1
hi  libc6                           2.36-9+deb12u7
ii  libduktape207                   2.7.0-2
ii  libexpat1                       2.2.10-2+deb11u5
ii  libglib2.0-0                    2.78.4-1
ii  libpam-systemd [logind]         252.26-1~deb12u2
ii  libpam0g                        1.5.2-6+deb12u1
ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0             122-3
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0           122-3
ii  libsystemd0                     252.26-1~deb12u2
ii  systemd [systemd-sysusers]      252.26-1~deb12u2
ii  xml-core                        0.18+nmu1

polkitd recommends no packages.

Versions of packages polkitd suggests:
iu  polkitd-pkla  122-3

Versions of packages polkitd is related to:
pn  elogind         <none>
pn  libpam-elogind  <none>
ii  libpam-systemd  252.26-1~deb12u2
ii  systemd         252.26-1~deb12u2

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