Re: Fw: Bug#328053: configure on install problem: cannot add user while name_regex don't match username "sympa"

["Joe Smith" <unknown_kev_cat@hotmail.com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Henning Makholm" <henning@makholm.net>
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 6:41 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: Bug#328053: configure on install problem: cannot add user 
while name_regex don't match username "sympa"


> Scripsit Stefan Hornburg <racke@linuxia.de>

> > When I install sympa, it fails adding this user. Here are the messages :
> > Setting up sympa (4.1.5-2) ...
> > Adding system group: sympa.
> > addgroup: Please enter a username matching the regular expression 
> > configured
> > via the name_regex configuration variable.  Use the `--force-badname'
> > option to relax this check or reconfigure name_regex.
> > Adding system user: sympa.
> > adduser: Warning: The home dir you specified already exists.
> > adduser: Please enter a username matching the regular expression 
> > configured
> > via the name_regex configuration variable.  Use the `--force-badname'
> > option to relax this check or reconfigure name_regex.
> > usermod: user sympa does not exist
> > usermod: user sympa does not exist
> > usermod: user sympa does not exist
> > usermod: user sympa does not exist
> [and much more]

> What I don't understand is that the maintainer script blithely went on
> doing its thing after addgroup failed the first time. The postinst
> does have an -e flag -- what is happening here?

Umm... does addgroup and/or adduser fail to exit nonzero on these errors? 
Thats what I suspect would casue that.