[Logcheck-devel] Bug#315250: logcheck: Installation fails due to an error

[Noam Rathaus]

Package: logcheck
Version: 1.2.39
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

During installation the following is returned:
Setting up logcheck (1.2.39) ...
gpasswd: unknown user adm
adduser: `/usr/bin/gpasswd -M root,adm,daemon,logcheck adm' returned
error code 1.  Aborting.
Cleaning up.


>From this point the logcheck won't work anymore, sending emails that
something wrong has happened.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.3-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages logcheck depends on:
ii  adduser          3.63                    Add and remove users and groups
ii  cron             3.0pl1-86               management of regular background p
ii  debconf [debconf 1.4.30.13               Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils      2.13.1                  Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  lockfile-progs   0.1.10                  Programs for locking and unlocking
ii  logcheck-databas 1.2.39                  A database of system log rules for
ii  logtail          1.2.39                  Print log file lines that have not
ii  mailx            1:8.1.2-0.20040524cvs-4 A simple mail user agent
ii  sendmail-bin [ma 8.13.4-3                powerful, efficient, and scalable 
ii  sysklogd [system 1.4.1-17                System Logging Daemon

-- debconf information:
  logcheck/changes:
* logcheck/install-note: