Re: man-db install error
Satz- und Datentechnik Günter Knab
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On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, D & E Radel wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> Error installing man-db. Can anyone please tell me how to fix this problem:
>
> Fetched 334kB in 1m6s (4997B/s)
> Selecting previously deselected package man-db.
> (Reading database ... 33532 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking man-db (from .../man-db_2.3.16-4_i386.deb) ...
> Setting up man-db (2.3.16-4) ...
> chown: man.root: invalid user
> <-------- this error
> dpkg: error processing man-db (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> man-db
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> Not long ago, a whole stack of system user accounts appeared on the KDM
> login screen. After, messing around in KDE tools, I got rid of them, but
> think
> that I have killed them all. However, besides this error, my system seems to
> run per usual, with no problems.
looks like an missing entry in /etc/passwd:
--- /etc/passwd on _my_ system
man:x:6:100:man:/var/cache/man:/bin/sh
---
May be this entry was accidently deleted, just add it again with your
favorite editor. Reinstallation of the package schould finish without
error
-- gk
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