Re: Jessie: suddenly unable to make any changes with apt-get or aptitude:

Hi Don,

Hmm, I tried to figure out what group id might be required to replace...

'vm.hugetlb_shm_grop dba_group_gid'

...with, in...

/etc/sysctl.conf and /etc/sysctl.d/* (and I have no idea where or which package 'dba_group_gid' came from--something standard and maintained I'm 99.9% sure). I ran 'id -g dba_group_gid' as you suggested. Unfortunately it replies like this, that there IS no such user:

# id -g dba_group_gid
id: dba_group_gid: no such user

Any more ideas? I appreciate mightily the suggestions.

Dean E1zin9a

On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> wrote:

On Mon, 06 Oct 2014, Sentientmeat Net wrote:
> # journalctl -b _PID=7477
> -- Logs begin at Sun 2014-10-05 10:05:14 PDT, end at Mon 2014-10-06
> 20:11:54 PDT. --
> Oct 06 19:46:43 sinova systemd-sysctl[7477]: Failed to write
> 'dba_group_gid' to '/proc/sys/vm/hugetlb_shm_group': Invalid argument

/proc/sys/vm/hugetlb_shm_group takes a group id, not a group name.

You want to replace vm.hugetlb_shm_grop dba_group_gid in
/etc/sysctl.conf or /etc/sysctl.d/* with whatever

id -g dba_group_gid;

writes out, and then rerun dpkg --configure -a.

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