Reinstall error on libvirt -- group already exists

[Neal Bierbaum]

Tried reinstall of kvm, libvirt, etc. At end of reinstall the message shown in the title appeared. The details in the install log said "libvirt: group already exists". This is probably not really a problem -- the error reporting just needs to be fixed.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Package: libvirt-bin 0.6.1-0ubuntu4
SourcePackage: libvirt
Title: package libvirt-bin 0.6.1-0ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Thanks for the bug report, It can probably do a better job of detecting if a libvirt group already exists.

Regards
chuck

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

I can confirm that this is fix-released in Lucid.

In Jaunty, we had:
        if ! getent group libvirt >/dev/null; then
                addgroup --system libvirtd
        fi

Now it's fixed with:

        if ! getent group libvirtd >/dev/null; then
                addgroup --system libvirtd
        fi