[Bug 494968] Re: package ntp 1:4.2.4p6+dfsg-1ubuntu5.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Thierry Carrez]

postinst has:

adduser --system --quiet --group --no-create-home ntp || :
chown -R ntp:ntp /var/lib/ntp /var/log/ntpstats

If adduser fails for any reason (and with "--quiet" and "|| :" it's hard to know), then chown would fail.
Can you (or any of the 9 people affected by this bug) reproduce after purging and reinstalling the package ?

sudo apt-get purge ntp
sudo apt-get install ntp

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package ntp 1:4.2.4p6+dfsg-1ubuntu5.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/494968
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