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bash - cat: /etc/shells: No such file or directory

Bug #28350 reported by Debian Bug Importer on 2006-01-10

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #28422: bash: Fails to install through debootstrap. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	bash (Debian)	Fix Released	Unknown	debbugs #347430
	bash (Ubuntu)	Invalid	High	Matthias Klose

Bug Description

Automatically imported from Debian bug report #347430 http://bugs.debian.org/347430

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote on 2006-01-10:

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:44:38 +0100
From: Bastian Blank <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: bash - cat: /etc/shells: No such file or directory

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Package: bash
Version: 3.1-2
Severity: grave

| Preparing to replace bash 3.1-1 (using .../archives/bash_3.1-2_s390.deb) =
=2E..
| Unpacking replacement bash ...
| cat: /etc/shells: No such file or directory
| Either another instance of /usr/sbin/remove-shell is running, or it was p=
reviously interrupted.
| Please examine /etc/shells.tmp to see if it should be moved onto /etc/she=
lls.
| dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 1
| dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
| cat: /etc/shells: No such file or directory
| Either another instance of /usr/sbin/remove-shell is running, or it was p=
reviously interrupted.
| Please examine /etc/shells.tmp to see if it should be moved onto /etc/she=
lls.
| dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/bash_3.1-2_s390.deb (--unp=
ack):
| subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1
| cat: /etc/shells: No such file or directory
| Either another instance of /usr/sbin/remove-shell is running, or it was p=
reviously interrupted.
| Please examine /etc/shells.tmp to see if it should be moved onto /etc/she=
lls.
| dpkg: error while cleaning up:
| subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
| Errors were encountered while processing:
| /var/cache/apt/archives/bash_3.1-2_s390.deb
| E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

| $ ls -al /etc/shells*
| zsh: no matches found: /etc/shells*

Bastian

--=20
You! What PLANET is this!
-- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0

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Message-ID: <20060110164438.GB29753@wavehammer.waldi.eu.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:44:38 +0100
From: Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: bash - cat: /etc/shells: No such file or directory

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Package: bash
Version: 3.1-2
Severity: grave

| Preparing to replace bash 3.1-1 (using .../archives/bash_3.1-2_s390.deb) =
=2E..
| Unpacking replacement bash ...
| cat: /etc/shells: No such file or directory
| Either another instance of /usr/sbin/remove-shell is running, or it was p=
reviously interrupted.
| Please examine /etc/shells.tmp to see if it should be moved onto /etc/she=
lls.
| dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 1
| dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
| cat: /etc/shells: No such file or directory
| Either another instance of /usr/sbin/remove-shell is running, or it was p=
reviously interrupted.
| Please examine /etc/shells.tmp to see if it should be moved onto /etc/she=
lls.
| dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/bash_3.1-2_s390.deb (--unp=
ack):
|  subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1
| cat: /etc/shells: No such file or directory
| Either another instance of /usr/sbin/remove-shell is running, or it was p=
reviously interrupted.
| Please examine /etc/shells.tmp to see if it should be moved onto /etc/she=
lls.
| dpkg: error while cleaning up:
|  subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
| Errors were encountered while processing:
|  /var/cache/apt/archives/bash_3.1-2_s390.deb
| E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

| $ ls -al /etc/shells*
| zsh: no matches found: /etc/shells*

Bastian

--=20
You!  What PLANET is this!
		-- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote on 2006-01-12:

Marking as duplicate based on debbugs merge (342857,347430)

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 28422.

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote on 2006-01-12:

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:51:08 +0100
From: Matthias Klose <email address hidden>
To: Clint Adams <email address hidden>, Bastian Blank <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
CC: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: add-shell

severity 347430 important
merge 347430 342857
thanks

#342855 says it's fixed, hower Bastian recently submitted a new bug
report, so what is the issue?

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote on 2006-01-12:

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:57:54 +0100
From: Bastian Blank <email address hidden>
To: Matthias Klose <email address hidden>
Cc: Clint Adams <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>,
<email address hidden>
Subject: Re: add-shell

severity 347430 serious
thanks

> #342855 says it's fixed, hower Bastian recently submitted a new bug
> report, so what is the issue?

debianutils only installs them on a first time installation, this are
several chroots without that file.

Bastian

--=20
Witch! Witch! They'll burn ya!
-- Hag, "Tomorrow is Yesterday", stardate unknown

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote on 2006-01-12:

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:59:59 +0100
From: Matthias Klose <email address hidden>
To: Bastian Blank <email address hidden>
Cc: Clint Adams <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>,
<email address hidden>
Subject: Re: add-shell

reassign 347430 debianutils
thanks

Bastian Blank writes:
> severity 347430 serious
> thanks
>
> > #342855 says it's fixed, hower Bastian recently submitted a new bug
> > report, so what is the issue?
>
> debianutils only installs them on a first time installation, this are
> several chroots without that file.
>
> Bastian
>
> --
> Witch! Witch! They'll burn ya!
> -- Hag, "Tomorrow is Yesterday", stardate unknown