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festival package

package snmpd 5.4.2.1~dfsg0ubuntu1-0ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade:

Bug #572080 reported by Bjarke Freund-Hansen on 2010-04-30

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #572091: package festival (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: exit status 1 - useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later.. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

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

Bug Description

Happened while dist-upgrading from Karmic to the final release of Lucid.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: snmpd 5.4.2.1~dfsg0ubuntu1-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.58-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Apr 30 08:11:43 2010
ErrorMessage:
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
SNMPVersion:
NET-SNMP version: 5.4.2.1
Web: http://www.net-snmp.org/
Email: <email address hidden>
SourcePackage: net-snmp
SyslogSnmpd:

SyslogSnmptrapd:

Title: package snmpd 5.4.2.1~dfsg0ubuntu1-0ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade:

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Bjarke Freund-Hansen (bjarkefh) wrote on 2010-04-30:

Dependencies.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
VarLogDistupgradeAptlog.gz Edit (9.4 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog.gz Edit (77.2 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeLspcitxt.gz Edit (869 bytes, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeMainlog.gz Edit (19.6 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeSystemstatetargz.gz Edit (750.7 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog.gz Edit (81.4 KiB, application/x-gzip)

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote on 2010-04-30:

Setting up festival (1.96~beta-10ubuntu1) ...
useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later.
adduser: `/usr/sbin/useradd -d /home/festival -g audio -s /bin/false -u 124 festival' returned error code 1. Exiting.
dpkg: error processing festival (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

affects:

net-snmp (Ubuntu) → festival (Ubuntu)

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Bjarke Freund-Hansen (bjarkefh) wrote on 2010-04-30:

I had a look into the log files and it seems several packages failed installing/updating because they tried to create a new user, and the /etc/passwd was locked (by a stale /etc/passwd.lock file, which I had to remove manually.) So the question is, which update left behind a /etc/passwd.lock file blocking the rest of the updates (festival, net-snmp, and more?) ?