[Bug 1612499] Re: base-passwd install fails during 16.04 upgrade

[Alfred]

Sorry about this,  I removed the offending group and that took care of
it.

** Changed in: base-passwd (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  base-passwd install fails during 16.04 upgrade

Status in base-passwd package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Description:	Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
  Release:	16.04
  While upgrading from 14.04 lts to 16.04 lts, I got an error (from /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt-term.log):
   
  Writing passwd-file to /etc/passwd
  Writing shadow-file to /etc/shadow
  Writing group-file to /etc/group
  Error writing group-entry: Invalid argument
  dpkg: error processing package base-passwd (--configure):
   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 4
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   base-passwd

  When I try to install the package manually using "apt-get install
  base-passwd":

  After this operation, 10.2 kB disk space will be freed.
  Setting up base-passwd (3.5.39) ...
  Removing group "apple" (99)
  1 changes have been made, rewriting files
  Writing passwd-file to /etc/passwd
  Writing shadow-file to /etc/shadow
  Writing group-file to /etc/group
  Error writing group-entry: Invalid argument
  dpkg: error processing package base-passwd (--configure):
   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 4
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   base-passwd
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

  I apologize ahead of time since I'm new to this.  I already tried to search for this problem but could not find it.
  Thank you.

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