[Python-modules-team] Bug#697195: python-celery: Can not start celery daemon. error is: chown: invalid user: `celery'

[Thomas Bechtold]

Package: python-celery
Version: 2.5.3-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I can not start the celeryd daemon with /etc/init.d/celeryd start

# /etc/init.d/celeryd start
chown: invalid user: `celery'


Steps to reproduce the problem:
1) install python-celery
2) set in /etc/default/celeryd ENABLED="true"
3) try /etc/init.d/celeryd start



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages python-celery depends on:
ii  python                2.7.3~rc2-1
ii  python-amqplib        1.0.2-1
ii  python-anyjson        0.3.1-2
ii  python-cl             0.0.3-1
ii  python-dateutil       1.5+dfsg-0.1
ii  python-kombu          2.1.8-1
ii  python-mailer         0.7-1
ii  python-memcache       1.48-1
ii  python-pkg-resources  0.6.24-1
ii  python-pyparsing      1.5.6+dfsg1-2
ii  python2.7             2.7.3~rc2-2.1

python-celery recommends no packages.

Versions of packages python-celery suggests:
pn  python-gevent      <none>
pn  python-pytyrant    <none>
pn  python-redis       <none>
pn  python-sqlalchemy  <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/celeryd changed:
ENABLED="true"
CELERYD_NODES="w1"
CELERYD_CHDIR="/opt/Myproject/"
CELERYD_OPTS="--time-limit=300 --concurrency=8"
CELERY_CONFIG_MODULE="celeryconfig"
CELERYD_LOG_FILE="/var/log/celery/%n.log"
CELERYD_PID_FILE="/var/run/celery/%n.pid"
CELERYD_USER="celery"
CELERYD_GROUP="celery"


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