Re: [plex86] setup: "user whiptail doesn't exist"
On Sunday 16 March 2003 11:09, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 10:26:36AM -0300, Eike Lantzsch wrote:
> > When I try to install it with "dpkg -i" I get:
> >
> > Setting up plex86-kernel-2.4.20 (0.0.20011018-8) ...
> > adduser: The user `whiptail:' doesn't exist.
> > dpkg: error processing plex86-kernel-2.4.20 (--configure):
> > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
[snippage]
> > What is going on?
> Neither, no. It seems that you've entered "whiptail:" (with the colon)
> when plex86-kernel-2.4.20 asked you "Which users do you want in the
> Plex86 group?". I suggest using 'dpkg-reconfigure plex86-kernel-2.4.20'
> to remove the colon, or perhaps just remove that username altogether.
>
> The appearance of "whiptail:" could have been a bug - I don't know the
> package well enough to be sure.
>
> --
> Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
Thanks to Colin Watson.
I'm sure I didn't enter "whiptail" nor "whiptail:" in any dialog.
But anyway, your answer put me back on track.
dpkg-reconfigure didn't work because plex86 wasn't completely
installed. In /var/cache/debconf/config.dat were two "value:"-
entries which are supposed to contain the username and nothing
else. However the two values contained an error message starting
with "whiptail:". I deleted the entries. This enabled me to run
dpkg -i plex86-kernel-2.4.20 again. Then dpkg-reconfigure was run
successfully and brought up the configuration dialog for plex86
where I was able to enter the usernames for the plex86 group.
This time the values in config.dat were set correctly.
I don't know where this went wrong in the first place neither could
I reproduce the error. It was a glitch. Thus: no bug report.
Thank you again
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