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



That solved it! 

I tried the 'getent' command and it found nothing, so I resolved to just find anything mentioning dba_group_gid... turned out that some lines I added to /etc/sysctl.conf while trying to install Oracle (working from a fairly informative blog posting about installing Oracle on Debian) had me add those lines to that file. Luckily I'd commented that portion when I made those changes, so I could tell what was going on. I commented out that line... then crossed my fingers, jumped as high as I could while whispering "tabitha" and doing two 360-degree turns before landing... and after roughly 1,000,000,000 downloads, triggers and updates, I'm now back on Jessie with my packages updating.

Thank you!!

On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> wrote:
On Tue, 07 Oct 2014, Sentientmeat Net wrote:
> 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).

Well, if you find the file that has it, it'll be more obvious what it
is. (But using codesearch.debian.net, I don't find any matches for
dba_group_gid in Debian... so it's likely to not be in Debian at all.)

> 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.

Sorry, id was the wrong command.[1] You want something like:

getent group dba_group_gid;

instead.

If there's no match at all, then that group doesn't exist, and you can
just delete that line completely.

1: id only works for user names, not group names, and I keep forgetting
that.

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