plone-site installation fails

[Richard Smiley]

Binary package hint: plone-site

On Hardy, apt-get install plone-site returns:

dzhandle make-instance: service user must be specified as user:group

Googling shows that the latest zope-debhelper should fix this, but it doesn't. This effectively means that plone-site isn't installed (it should be installed under /var/lib/zope2.9).

$ apt-cache policy plone-site
plone-site:
  Installed: 2.5.2-3
  Candidate: 2.5.2-3
  Version table:
 *** 2.5.2-3 0
        500 http://lug.mtu.edu hardy/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Richard Smiley (rsmiley)]

Changing line 81 of the postinst script fixes it:

$ diff postinst.old postinst
81c81
< --service-port=$port --service-user=zope $ZEOSERVER
---
> --service-port=$port --service-user=zope:zope $ZEOSERVER

[Laurie Savage (savage-laurie)]

Thank you for posting the fix but this bug still exists as of 22/05/2008.

[Pedro Casagrande (pccampos)]

I confirm this bug:

Instalando plone-site (2.5.2-3) ...
dzhandle make-instance: service user must be specified as user:group

[Richard Smiley (rsmiley)]

Is there some way to get this fix to the attention of the maintainers? It seems easy enough to patch.

[Pierre R (pradermecker)]

Where is the "postinst" file exactly ?

[Andreas Brudin (andreas-brudin)]

In my Ubuntu Hardy it was in
/var/lib/dpkg/info/plone-site.postinst

[Zaki Manian (zmanian)]

This fix worked for me as well. It would be great to have a package maintainer take care of it.

[Ace Suares (acesuares)]

I confirmed this bug.

[Ace Suares (acesuares)]

http://www.suares.an/index.php?page_id=25&news_id=225#news-top

    * Fixing plone-site on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy
      When you try to install plone-site on Ubuntu Hardy, the installation fails with the following error:
      dzhandle make-instance: service user must be specified as user:group
      Here is a link to the apropriate launchpad bug.
      To fix it, you might take the following route. Install plone-site and tons of zope packages, but fail ultimately:
      sudo apt-get install plone-site
      Edit the postinst file:
      joe /var/lib/dpkg/info/plone-site.postinst
      Change line 81 from
      --service-port=$port --service-user=zope $ZEOSERVER
      to
      --service-port=$port --service-user=zope:zope $ZEOSERVER
      Instead of joe, you might want to use vi, nano, or any of your favorite editors.
      Now reconfigure plone-site and all is well that ends well:
      dpkg-reconfigure plone-site