[Pkg-freevo-maint] Bug#476832: freevo: Services unable to start

Geoff Simmons gsimmons at gsimmons.org
Sat Apr 19 13:04:15 UTC 2008


Package: freevo
Version: 1.8.0-2
Severity: normal

The freevo user created during package installation is assigned /bin/false
as its login shell:

  freevo:x:102:104::/home/freevo:/bin/false

This breaks functionality of the freevo init scripts, owing to their use
of substitute user (su) commands.  The default freevo services (xserver,
recordserver, encodingserver) cannot be started as a consequence.

Please either change the assigned login shell to /bin/sh, or specify the
shell to be invoked (via `--shell') within the init scripts.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages freevo depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.107            add and remove users and groups
ii  console-tools           1:0.2.3dbs-65    Linux console and font utilities
ii  debconf                 1.5.20           Debian configuration management sy
ii  freevo-data             1.8.0-2          Themes and non-application data fo
ii  lsdvd                   0.16-3           read the content info of a DVD
ii  mplayer                 1.0~rc2-8+lenny1 movie player for Unix-like systems
ii  python                  2.4.4-6          An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-central          0.6.1            register and build utility for Pyt
ii  python-freevo           1.8.0-2          Python modules for Freevo

Versions of packages freevo recommends:
ii  cdparanoia            3.10+debian~pre0-6 audio extraction tool for sampling
ii  libxmltv-perl         0.5.51-2           Perl libraries related to the XMLT
pn  xine-ui               <none>             (no description available)
ii  xmltv-util            0.5.51-2           Utilities related to the XMLTV fil

-- debconf information:
  freevo/path_to_recordings: /home/freevo/recordings
* freevo/display: x11
* freevo/start_on_boot:
  freevo/path_to_audio: /home/freevo/audio
  freevo/path_to_image: /home/freevo/image
* freevo/norm: pal
  freevo/path_to_video: /home/freevo/video
  freevo/title_image: Image folder
* freevo/chanlist: australia
  freevo/title_video: Video folder
* freevo/services: xserver, recordserver, encodingserver
* freevo/geometry: 800x600
  freevo/title_audio: Audio folder





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