wireshark-common 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4 failed to upgrade. It now requires "wireshark" group to be a system group.

[Illia Bobyr]

Wireshark-common pacakge from Utopic created a "wireshark" group that was not a system group. Id higher than 1000.
Wireshark-common that comes with Vivid requests group creation with "--system" flag.
That fails as the group already exists and is not in the system ID range.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: wireshark-common 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-15.15-generic 3.19.3
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Apr 23 12:59:22 2015
DuplicateSignature: package:wireshark-common:1.12.1+g01b65bf-4:subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-01-04 (839 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.1)
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.17.25ubuntu1
 apt 1.0.9.7ubuntu4
SourcePackage: wireshark
Title: package wireshark-common 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2015-04-23 (0 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[william (bugz-u)]

work around is :
sudo groupmod -g 666 wireshark
sudo dpkg -a --configure

the number is anything <1000 that is not in use. I chose 666
affected 2 systems so far for me on do-release-upgrade
AA1 intel atom and an intel i7 based PC

[autra (autra)]

I'm affected as well.

Is there any step I need to do to recover from this error and make sure everything is clean in my system ? Is apt-get autoremove / restarting enough ?

Thanks !

[Illia Bobyr (illia-bobyr)]

> work around is :
> sudo groupmod -g 666 wireshark
> sudo dpkg -a --configure

groupmod will only change the group id in /etc/group, but would not update any existing files.
Not sure if it is a big deal, but here is what I did:

sudo apt-get remove wireshark\*
sudo dpkg -a --configure
sudo apt-get install wireshark

This may still leave some files with the old user and group id, I guess, but the main part will be replaced.

[Balint Reczey (rbalint)]

@Ilya sudo dpkg -a --configure will update /usr/bin/dumpcap thus william's solution is fine, too.
I have just uploaded a fixed package to Debian unstable.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package wireshark - 1.12.4+gb4861da-1

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wireshark (1.12.4+gb4861da-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  [Arnd Hannemann]
  * Fix German debconf translation (Closes: #779826)

  [Balint Reczey]
  * Fix pkg-config file (Closes: #779788)
  * New upstream release 1.12.4 from git snapshot:
    - release notes:
      https://wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.12.4.html
  * Drop obsolete patches
  * Bump standards version

 -- Balint Reczey <email address hidden> Thu, 30 Apr 2015 07:42:35 +0200

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Further to comment #7 I'm belatedly marking the 100 Papercuts task as being fixed.