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sympa package

  1. Bug #286033
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 286033

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Thomas (me-thomaskeller) wrote : Re: Sympa installation fails when root account is disabled

Ok, the described behaviour seems to be a bug which was otherwhere filed:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/+source/shadow/+bug/238755

Still, if I fix the "wrong" locking of my root user account with

$ sudo passwd --unlock root
$ sudo usermod --lock root

and try to reinstall sympa, I get a new / different error:

Setting up sympa (5.3.4-2ubuntu2) ...
chmod: cannot access `/etc/sympa/sympa.conf-smime.in': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing sympa (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 sympa
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)