[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1099534: dbus-system-bus-common: Fails to install when messagebus user already exists

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Source: dbus
Version: 1.16.2-1
Severity: normal

Hello,

the package dbus-system-bus-common fails to install when the messagebus user already
exists which seems to be the case on some systems:

Setting up dbus-system-bus-common (1.16.2-1) ...
fatal: The user `messagebus' already exists, but is not a system user. Exiting.
dpkg: error processing package dbus-system-bus-common (--configure):
 installed dbus-system-bus-common package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 13
Setting up sbuild-build-depends-dose3-dummy (0.invalid.0) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of dbus:
 dbus depends on dbus-system-bus-common (>= 1.16.2-1); however:
  Package dbus-system-bus-common is not configured yet.

The postinst script should probably check for the existance of the messagebus account
instead of trying to create it unconditionally.

Thanks,
Adrian

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