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

[Michael Biebl]

Am 03.07.24 um 11:17 schrieb 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?
> 

can you attach
/etc/nsswitch.conf please?

Are you running the upgrade inside a chroot?

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