Bug 38969 – mgetty add user fails, user fax exists

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Denny Schierz 2004-01-21 16:12:19 UTC]

Update mgetty fails, because the user fax exists. The workaround is, to delete the user fax, before emerge -u world.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
 
 


[...] 
 
make[2]: Entering directory 
`/var/tmp/portage/mgetty-1.1.30/work/mgetty-1.1.30/callback' 
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'. 
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/var/tmp/portage/mgetty-1.1.30/work/mgetty-1.1.30/callback' 
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/mgetty-1.1.30/work/mgetty-1.1.30' 
 
>>> Install mgetty-1.1.30 into /var/tmp/portage/mgetty-1.1.30/image/ category 
net-dialup 
 * Adding user 'fax' to your system ... 
 *  - Userid: next available 
 *  - Shell: /bin/false 
 *  - Home: /dev/null 
 *  - Groups: (none) 
useradd: user fax exists 
 
!!! ERROR: net-dialup/mgetty-1.1.30 failed. 
!!! Function enewuser, Line 588, Exitcode 9 
!!! enewuser failed

[Comment 1 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2004-01-27 12:28:10 UTC]

i cannot reproduce that but it seems to be a bug in eutils.eclass

[Comment 2 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2004-02-12 12:44:09 UTC]

can you still reproduce that?

[Comment 3 Denny Schierz 2004-02-12 13:10:38 UTC]

I had this errors on three systems

[Comment 4 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2004-02-15 14:33:22 UTC]

Mike, mind having a look (as it is eadduser I imagine)?

[Comment 5 Clay Culver 2004-03-25 08:51:46 UTC]

I just tested this on my system.  I first added the fax user, it built fine.  I removed the fax user...installed mgetty, unmerged (which left the gentoo created fax user), re-installed mgetty.  Still works fine.  Has this been resolved since the post, or are we still having trouble reproducing?

[Comment 6 SpanKY 2004-03-26 13:06:54 UTC]

yeah i probably fixed this in my enew{user,group} cleanup