Package postinst fails to create /home/netdisco

[Robert Sander]

If a user "netdisco" does not exist yet and /home is NFS mounted (and read-only for local root) the installation of this package fails.

The postinst script contains a call to adduser with a --home /home/netdisco argument.

Please ask before running where to put the home directory of this user or just do not create it.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: netdisco-backend 1.0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Nov 14 23:17:45 2011
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: netdisco
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-23 (22 days ago)

[Robert Sander (gurubert)]

This is the upstream bugreport: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=615956