Bug#381560: bad useradd call in postinst
Package: hplip
Version: 0.9.11-2
Severity: grave
hplip fails to install:
Setting up hplip (0.9.11-2) ...
Creating/updating hplip user account...
useradd: invalid numeric argument 'lp'
adduser: `/usr/sbin/useradd -d /var/run/hplip -g lp -s /bin/false -u 107 hplip' returned error code 3. Exiting.
dpkg: error processing hplip (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Wichert.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages hplip depends on:
ii adduser 3.96 Add and remove users and groups
ii coreutils 5.97-3 The GNU core utilities
ii cupsys 1.2.2-1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii hplip-data 0.9.11-2 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - da
ii libc6 2.3.6-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcupsys2 1.2.2-1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-10 GCC support library
ii libsnmp9 5.2.2-5 NET SNMP (Simple Network Managemen
ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8b-2 SSL shared libraries
ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-10 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-2 userspace USB programming library
ii lsb-base 3.1-10 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii python 2.3.5-11 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-qt3 3.16-1.2 Qt3 bindings for Python
Versions of packages hplip recommends:
ii cupsys-client 1.2.2-1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
pn hpijs <none> (no description available)
ii python-reportlab 2.0dfsg-1 ReportLab library to create PDF do
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