package postfix 2.6.5-3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Bug #442403 reported by jeroen.kurvers
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: postfix

Ubuntu Karma, just tried to install postfix.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Oct 4 17:32:35 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: postfix 2.6.5-3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
SourcePackage: postfix
Title: package postfix 2.6.5-3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64

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jeroen.kurvers (jeroen-kurvers) wrote :
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Andreas Olsson (andol) wrote :

Here are were things go wrong:

  Adding system user `postfix' (UID 116) ...

  Adding new user `postfix' (UID 116) with group `postfix' ...

  useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later.

  adduser: `/usr/sbin/useradd -d /var/spool/postfix -g postfix -s /bin/false -u 116 postfix' returned error code 1. Exiting.

  dpkg: error processing postfix (--configure):

   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Looks very much like the issue which is being tracked in bug #432964. Feel free to add any additional information to that report. I'll be marking this report as a duplicate.

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