Bug#312393: [Logcheck-devel] Bug#312393: logcheck: Some more information that might help

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

On Thursday 22 Sep 2005 02:33, maximilian attems wrote:
> > i guess you interrupt the postrm or similar to get into similar
> > troubles.
>
> unable to reproduce with normal purge and reinstall cycles.
> a new install seemed to have cured the problems of the bug reporters.
> as it appears only when interrupting the postinstall
> closing this strange bug.
>

After you mentioned it being fixed, I tried installing the package again but 
got the same problem. I wonder on what grounds you are closing this bug.

Here's what I've found again:

root at laptop:~ # apt-get install logcheck
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  logcheck-database logtail
Suggested packages:
  syslog-summary
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  logcheck logcheck-database logtail
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 334 not upgraded.
Need to get 145kB of archives.
After unpacking 1020kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main logtail 1.2.41 [29.8kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main logcheck-database 1.2.41 [67.5kB]
Get:3 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main logcheck 1.2.41 [47.9kB]
Fetched 145kB in 19s (7620B/s)
Reading package fields... Done
Reading package status... Done
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package logtail.
(Reading database ... 237487 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking logtail (from .../logtail_1.2.41_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package logcheck-database.
Unpacking logcheck-database (from .../logcheck-database_1.2.41_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package logcheck.
Unpacking logcheck (from .../logcheck_1.2.41_all.deb) ...
Setting up logtail (1.2.41) ...
Setting up logcheck-database (1.2.41) ...

Setting up logcheck (1.2.41) ...
adduser: The user `logcheck' does not exist.
chown: `logcheck:logcheck': invalid user
chown: `logcheck:logcheck': invalid user



And here's the entries in syslog logged.

Sep 22 22:37:30 laptop useradd[19560]: new user: name=logcheck, uid=120, 
gid=118, home=/var/lib/logcheck, shell=/bin/false
Sep 22 22:37:30 laptop chage[19561]: changed password expiry for logcheck


HTH,

rrs
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