Re: root.dip: invalid group when installing ppp

[David Gaudine <david@annette.concordia.ca>]

On 14 Mar 1997 jghasler@win.bright.net wrote:

> David Gaudine writes:
> > When I try to configure ppp I get:
> 
> >   Setting up ppp (2.2.0f-19) ...
> >   chown: root.dip: invalid group
> >   dpkg: error processing ppp (--configure):
> 
> I ran into that recently with diald.  Turned out to be a typo in
> /etc/group.

My /etc/group doesn't have anything remotely resembling root.dip.  I tried
installing diald (because of your comment) and it installed without complaint
and the group still doesn't exist.  Oh well, I'll just addgroup it blindly
with a random GID.
[switches windows]
OOPs, "addgroup" only accepts letters and numbers, "root.dip" is invalid.
So I edited /etc/group as follows:
   operator:*:37:
   root.dip:*:39:
   src:*:40:
and dselect still gives:
   Setting up ppp (2.2.0f-19) ...
   chown: root.dip: invalid group
Looks like I'm in over my head again.