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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 on 2009-10-04

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #432964: System crash in guest session locks /etc/passwd forever. Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	postfix (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

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 on 2009-10-04:

AptOrdering.txt Edit (3.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (1007 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (58.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.gz Edit (12.7 KiB, application/x-gzip)

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Andreas Olsson (andol) wrote on 2009-10-04:

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.