Re: netstd problem

[Michel Dänzer <michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch>]

Sven LUTHER wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 11:53:05AM +0000, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> >
> >
> > While doing a 'apt-get upgrade dist-upgrade' recently, I got this:
> >
> > Setting up netstd (3.07-10) ...
> >  not in group file at /var/lib/dpkg/info/netstd.postinst line 63, <DATA> chunk
> > 5.
> > dpkg: error processing netstd (--configure):
> >  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> >  netstd
> >
> 
> I had also a problem with netstd yesterday, it complained about
> /etc/init.d/netstd_init not existing and refused to install. I  had to purge
> the package and install it anew.


Thanks, but that didn't help. In fact the problem was that no group named
'utmp' existed on my system. I guess line 63 in
/var/lib/dpkg/info/netstd.postinst is buggy:

$gid = getgrnam("utmp") or die "$utmp not in group file";
                                ^
This $ should not be there?


Michel


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