byobu upgrade fails with chown: invalid group
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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byobu (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Dustin Kirkland |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: byobu
Users don't always have a group that matches their username causing postinst to fail. In my case my primary group is warthogs with no sciri group at all on the system.
Setting up byobu (2.16-0ubuntu1~
chown: invalid group: `sciri:sciri'
dpkg: error processing byobu (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of byobu-extras:
byobu-extras depends on byobu; however:
Package byobu is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing byobu-extras (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
Errors were encountered while proces
sciri@baka:
debian/postinst: chown $u:$u "$DIR/$
sciri@baka:
uid=2630(sciri) gid=2500(warthogs) groups=
(fuse),
Related branches
Changed in byobu (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Dustin Kirkland (kirkland) |
importance: | Undecided → High |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in byobu (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Fix Released → Fix Committed |
This bug was fixed in the package byobu - 2.16-0ubuntu2
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byobu (2.16-0ubuntu2) karmic; urgency=low
* debian/postinst: can't assume a group named for the user, LP: #391722
-- Dustin Kirkland <email address hidden> Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:46:17 -0500