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Dustin Lundquist (dlundquist) wrote : Memcached package creates /nonexistent/

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[dustin@lilthing ~]$ ls /
bin boot cdrom dev etc home initrd.img initrd.img.old lib lib64 lost+found media mnt opt proc root run sbin srv sys tmp usr var vmlinuz vmlinuz.old
[dustin@lilthing ~]$ sudo apt-get install memcached
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  libcache-memcached-perl libmemcached
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  memcached
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/76.3 kB of archives.
After this operation, 228 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package memcached.
(Reading database ... 243247 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking memcached (from .../memcached_1.4.14-0ubuntu4_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Setting up memcached (1.4.14-0ubuntu4) ...
Starting memcached: memcached.
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
[dustin@lilthing ~]$ ls /
bin boot cdrom dev etc home initrd.img initrd.img.old lib lib64 lost+found media mnt nonexistent opt proc root run sbin srv sys tmp usr var vmlinuz vmlinuz.old

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Suggested fix:
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--- memcached-1.4.14/debian/memcached.postinst.orig 2013-11-26 14:13:52.632357089 -0800
+++ memcached-1.4.14/debian/memcached.postinst 2013-11-26 14:14:30.788355734 -0800
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
             adduser \
               --system \
               --disabled-login \
+ --no-create-home \
               --ingroup $GROUP \
               --home $DATADIR \
               --gecos "Memcached" \
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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: memcached 1.4.14-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-13.20-generic 3.11.6
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Nov 26 14:08:48 2013
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-08 (49 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Beta amd64 (20130925.1)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: memcached
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)