[Pkg-dns-devel] Bug#847117: softhsm2-common: unknown group 'softhsm' in statoverride file

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Package: softhsm2-common
Version: 2.2.0~rc2-1
Severity: normal

Dear maintainer:

I had both softhsm and softhsm2 installed for a while.

I recently purged softhsm-common in an attempt to clean up my system,
and i believe that the postrm script of softhsm-common did a "delgroup
softhsm"

As a result, dpkg failed completely on subsequent attempts with:

dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
 unknown group 'softhsm' in statoverride file


sure enough, "dpkg-statoverride --list" showed:

root softhsm 640 /etc/softhsm/softhsm2.conf

To work around this, i had to do:

dpkg-statoverride --remove /etc/softhsm/softhsm2.conf
dpkg-reconfigure softhsm2-common

I think the problem i ran into probably lies in the postrm of the
softhsm-common package (which is no longer installed), but the same
behavior might cause trouble in the postrm of softhsm2-common.

         --dkg

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable-debug'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages softhsm2-common depends on:
ii  ucf  3.0036

softhsm2-common recommends no packages.

softhsm2-common suggests no packages.

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