Bug 19233 – emerge system failed on slocate install (1.4_rc4 basic cd)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description Roderik van der Veer 2003-04-13 06:47:07 UTC]

slocate install tries to groupadd. On the forums i found you could groupadd 
manually, but groupadd isn't included on the live cd and isn't installed at 
this point of emerge system



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge system
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
emerge fails

Expected Results:  
d

[Comment 1 Roderik van der Veer 2003-04-13 06:47:07 UTC]

slocate install tries to groupadd. On the forums i found you could groupadd 
manually, but groupadd isn't included on the live cd and isn't installed at 
this point of emerge system



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge system
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
emerge fails

Expected Results:  
dûh

not really related to the config of my system

i fixed it by adding slocate to the package.mask so it's happely compiling away 
right now

[Comment 2 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2003-04-13 22:17:01 UTC]

a better fix is modifiying the slocate dependencies to include the shadow package.

[Comment 3 kappax 2003-04-13 22:24:27 UTC]

another fix, wich i think might be what will be done in next release or someting is 
just to add "sys-apps/shadow" to the depends of slocate , this is what i did and it 
seems to work fine :)  

[Comment 4 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-05-09 17:53:32 UTC]

fixed in cvs