Re: Man-db cofigure error
"Sang-Kyun Kim" <skkim@imazic.com> wrote:
> "dselect" automatically upgrades man-db.
>
> But, it cannot be configured, display this error messge.
>
>---------------------
>Setting up man-db (2.3.16-1.1) ...
>chown: man.root: invalid user
>dpkg: error processing man-db (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>Errors were encountered while processing:
> man-db
>-------------------
>
> How can this problem be fixed?
The 'man' user should always exist, as it's created by base-passwd (an
essential package). Are you doing something odd with your password file
that might overwrite this? If so, fix it so that 'man' exists -
base-passwd makes it userid 6, so you should stick with that.
--
Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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