Comment 0 for bug 1311886

installing nsd fails unless the `nsd` user is created first.

On a completely fresh Ubuntu 14.04 machine (from AWS's AMI):

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install nsd
....
Unpacking nsd (4.0.1-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ...
Setting up nsd (4.0.1-1) ...
start: Job failed to start
invoke-rc.d: initscript nsd, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing package nsd (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 nsd
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

$ sudo useradd nsd
$ sudo dpkg --configure nsd
Setting up nsd (4.0.1-1) ...
nsd start/running, process 1887