Debian Bug report logs - #837871
no need for addgroup: The group `input' already exists as a system group. Exiting. messages

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: no need for addgroup: The group `input' already exists as a system group. Exiting. messages

Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 07:56:17 +0800

Package: udev
Version: 231-6
Severity: wishlist

Perhaps on upgrade instead of saying
        addgroup: The group `input' already exists as a system group. Exiting.
say nothing, and instead just say
        Adding group `input'.
if adding.

That way you need only make one message once,
instead of a message upon each upgrade.

And it is a message about doing something,
instead of a message about doing nothing.

No need to distract system administrators with a message about doing
nothing, each upgrade.

Message #10 received at 837871@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>

To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>, 837871@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#837871: no need for addgroup: The group `input' already exists as a system group. Exiting. messages

Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 04:25:14 +0200

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Control: block -1 by 763055

Am 15.09.2016 um 01:56 schrieb 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson:
> Package: udev
> Version: 231-6
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Perhaps on upgrade instead of saying
>         addgroup: The group `input' already exists as a system group. Exiting.
> say nothing, and instead just say
>         Adding group `input'.
> if adding.
> 
> That way you need only make one message once,
> instead of a message upon each upgrade.
> 
> And it is a message about doing something,
> instead of a message about doing nothing.
> 
> No need to distract system administrators with a message about doing
> nothing, each upgrade.

That's basically an adduser bug. We wanted to use --quiet, but this is
broken due to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=763055

Good luck getting adduser fixed.


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Message #17 received at 837871@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>

To: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>

Cc: 837871@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#837871: no need for addgroup: The group `input' already exists as a system group. Exiting. messages

Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 12:25:01 +0800

Maybe instead test if the group exists via other means, and then only if
it doesn't, use addgroup to add it.

Message #22 received at 837871@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>

To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>

Cc: 837871@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#837871: no need for addgroup: The group `input' already exists as a system group. Exiting. messages

Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 09:37:43 +0200

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Am 15.09.2016 um 06:25 schrieb 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson:
> Maybe instead test if the group exists via other means, and then only if
> it doesn't, use addgroup to add it.

No, as said this is a bug in adduser/addgroup.

The root cause should be fixed and not worked around in individual packages.

Michael


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Message #27 received at 837871@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Afif Elghraoui <afif@debian.org>

To: 837871@bugs.debian.org, 837871-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#837871: no need for addgroup: The group `input' already exists as a system group. Exiting. messages

Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 00:59:51 -0700

Control: reassign -1 adduser
Control: affects -1 + udev


Hi, Michael and all,


On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 04:25:14 +0200 Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> wrote:
> Control: block -1 by 763055
> 
> Am 15.09.2016 um 01:56 schrieb 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson:
> > Package: udev
> > Version: 231-6
> > Severity: wishlist
> > 
> > Perhaps on upgrade instead of saying
> >         addgroup: The group `input' already exists as a system group. Exiting.
> > say nothing, and instead just say
> >         Adding group `input'.
> > if adding.
> > 
> > That way you need only make one message once,
> > instead of a message upon each upgrade.
> > 
> > And it is a message about doing something,
> > instead of a message about doing nothing.
> > 
> > No need to distract system administrators with a message about doing
> > nothing, each upgrade.
> 
> That's basically an adduser bug. We wanted to use --quiet, but this is
> broken due to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=763055
> 

It looks to me instead like a duplicate of
<https://bugs.debian.org/759740>. The bug you mention looks like it's
about the opposite problem--where an error occurs, but nothing is
printed because --quiet was passed.

If you agree, I would merge this ticket with #759740 and remove the
blocking relationship.


> Good luck getting adduser fixed.
> 
> 

I was going to say that this would be fixed sooner than you think, but
I'm planning to travel soon, so it could be about a month or so. :)

Thanks and regards
Afif


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Message #41 received at 837871@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>

To: Afif Elghraoui <afif@debian.org>, 837871@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#837871: no need for addgroup: The group `input' already exists as a system group. Exiting. messages

Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 10:20:32 +0200

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Hi Afif

Am 15.09.2016 um 09:59 schrieb Afif Elghraoui:
> On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 04:25:14 +0200 Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> wrote:

>> Good luck getting adduser fixed.
>>
>>
> 
> I was going to say that this would be fixed sooner than you think, but
> I'm planning to travel soon, so it could be about a month or so. :)

Oh, I wasn't aware that adduser got a new maintainer.
That's very good news!

Thanks a lot for looking into this.
I think #759740 and #763055 are basically about the same issue really.

Feel free to ping us once --quiet has been fixed and we'll re-add those
to our maintainer scripts.

Regards,
Michael


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Message #46 received at 837871@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>

To: Afif Elghraoui <afif@debian.org>

Cc: 837871@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#837871: no need for addgroup: The group `input' already exists as a system group. Exiting. messages

Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 18:35:07 +0800

You are welcome to reassign, etc.
All I know is everything works fine,
except the user is shown a unnecessary message.

Message #53 received at 837871@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Afif Elghraoui <afif@debian.org>

To: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>, 837871@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: no need for addgroup: The group `input' already exists as a system group. Exiting. messages

Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 23:12:20 -0400

Control: reassign -1 udev

Hi, Michael,

على الخميس 15 أيلول 2016 ‫04:20، كتب Michael Biebl:
> 
> Feel free to ping us once --quiet has been fixed and we'll re-add those
> to our maintainer scripts.
> 

I just uploaded adduser with a resolution for #763055. I'm very sorry
for the delay and hope to be much faster in the future.

I think it was a mistake for me to reassign this particular ticket,
since this is about you not using --quiet, but you aren't using --quiet
because it was broken in adduser (the "blocks" relationship you had
added). I think reassigning back, as I did here, will allow its closure
to properly notify the submitters that the problem they encountered is
resolved.

Let me know if there are further issues.

regards
Afif

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Message #60 received at 837871@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>

To: Afif Elghraoui <afif@debian.org>, 837871@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: no need for addgroup: The group `input' already exists as a system group. Exiting. messages

Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 13:37:50 +0200

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Hi Afif!

Am 13.08.2017 um 05:12 schrieb Afif Elghraoui:
> Control: reassign -1 udev
> 
> Hi, Michael,
> 
> على الخميس 15 أيلول 2016 ‫04:20، كتب Michael Biebl:
>>
>> Feel free to ping us once --quiet has been fixed and we'll re-add those
>> to our maintainer scripts.
>>
> 
> I just uploaded adduser with a resolution for #763055. I'm very sorry
> for the delay and hope to be much faster in the future.

Don't worry. It's great to see work being done for adduser.
This is very much appreciated. Thanks a lot!

> I think it was a mistake for me to reassign this particular ticket,
> since this is about you not using --quiet, but you aren't using --quiet
> because it was broken in adduser (the "blocks" relationship you had
> added). I think reassigning back, as I did here, will allow its closure
> to properly notify the submitters that the problem they encountered is
> resolved.
> 
> Let me know if there are further issues.
> 

I quickly tested it, i.e. I readded the --quiet flag to the addgroup
call in udev's postinst.
It did properly hide any messages on success and it did show an error
message if I triggered an error (by pre-creating an input group which
was not a system group but had a gid >= 1000).

So I plan to re-add the --quiet flag to systemd/udev for the next
upload. Should issues pop out, I'll keep you informed.

Thanks again,
Michael


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Message #67 received at 837871-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>

To: 837871-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#837871: fixed in systemd 234-3

Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2017 23:05:47 +0000

Source: systemd
Source-Version: 234-3

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
systemd, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 837871@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> (supplier of updated systemd package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)


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Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2017 00:17:00 +0200
Source: systemd
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Version: 234-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
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   [ Martin Pitt ]
   * Various fixes for the upstream autopkgtest.
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   [ Felipe Sateler ]
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     The upstream autopkgtest uses sfdisk, which is now in the non-essential
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     This should resolve ADT test failures, on arm64, when running as root.
   * Disable KillUserProcesses, yet again, with meson this time.
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     subsystems may also be required and should happen before triggering the
     devices. This is the case for example on s390x with zdev generated udev
     rules. (LP: #1713536)
 .
   [ Michael Biebl ]
   * (Re)add --quiet flag to addgroup calls.
     This is now safe with adduser having been fixed to no longer suppress
     fatal error messages if --quiet is used. (Closes: #837871)
   * Switch back to default GCC (Closes: #873661)
   * Drop systemd-timesyncd.service.d/disable-with-time-daemon.conf.
     All major NTP implementations ship a native service file nowadays with a
     Conflicts=systemd-timesyncd.service so this drop-in is no longer
     necessary. (Closes: #873185)
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