Re: Installation of openssh-client stops with error in groupadd

[Michael Luecke <lists-2016@mluecke.eu>]

Hello,

On 04/26/2016 08:54 PM, Reco wrote:
> For the sake of the purity of the experiment, it would be nice to reboot
> the system with "init=/bin/sh" added to kernel commandline (to exclude
> systemd interference), but I foresee that the result would be the same.
I'll try this if I have a little bit time and come back to this topic then.

> So, to sum it up. Your current kernel + root filesystem combo prevents
> you to overwrite /etc/group (and I suspect any existing file) with
> another file by means of conventional rename(2) syscall, which returns
> anomalous return code.
> My gut feeling tells me that one should blame filesystem (btrfs)
> implementation in cases such as this.
> This behavior justifies a bug report with severity 'serious' against
> 'linux-image' package as I don't see any easy way to fix this short of
> kernel patch or replacing the filesystem with something more
> conventional (ext4 comes to mind).
I'll prepare a bug-report also. As this is a freshly set-up computer, 
I'll also try to reinstall it with ext4.

So thank you for your help until here.

Best regards
Michael