[Bug 463562] Re: libvirt-bin Karmic upgrade fails when invalid users exist in /etc/group

[Stéphane Graber]

Reverting last status change as there was no rational for it.

** Changed in: adduser (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Confirmed

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Title:
  libvirt-bin Karmic upgrade fails when invalid users exist in
  /etc/group

Status in “adduser” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “libvirt” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  During the upgrade process, I received a:
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   libvirt-bin
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

  Manually running the upgrade process, I received additional output:

  root at n8-laptop:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  Calculating upgrade... Done
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  1 not fully installed or removed.
  After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
  Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 
  Setting up libvirt-bin (0.7.0-1ubuntu13) ...
  adduser: The user 'moose' does not exist.
  dpkg: error processing libvirt-bin (--configure):
   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   libvirt-bin
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

  It turns out I have a user from my home ldap (moose) in my libvirtd group along with my local user shown below:
  /etc/group:
  libvirtd:x:125:imac,moose,imacdonald

  In this case, I removed the offending user 'moose' and proceeded
  without error.

  This happened in my Karmic Upgrade from 9.04 up-to-date.

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