Comment 15 for bug 394755

"Accepted motion into karmic-proposed, the package will build now and be
available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to
enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!"

Congratulations!!!

it works without any issue : problem fixed

Thanks a lot to all for your contribution

Cheers

Franck Al Yamine Cohendet / FAYCpercussion©

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2009/12/7 Martin Pitt <email address hidden>

> Accepted motion into karmic-proposed, the package will build now and be
> available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to
> enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!
>
> --
> motion failed to install/upgrade : chown: invalid group: `motion:motion'
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/394755
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> of a duplicate bug.
>
> Status in “motion” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
> Status in “motion” source package in Karmic: Fix Committed
> Status in “motion” package in Debian: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: motion
>
> when ubuntu upgraded I lost my ATI driver and now motion fails to upgrade
>
> ProblemType: Package
> Architecture: i386
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
> ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit
> status 1
> Package: motion 3.2.11-1ubuntu1
> SourcePackage: motion
> Title: package motion 3.2.11-1ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess
> post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic i686
>
> DESCRIPTION:
> motion failed to install on Karmic with error
>
> chown: invalid group: `motion:motion'
> dpkg: error processing motion (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>
> when running the post install script and for some reason user 'motion'
> exists but group 'motion' doesn't
>
> TEST CASE:
> # sudo adduser --no-create-home --disabled-password --system --ingroup
> nogroup motion
> Adding system user `motion' (UID 103) ...
> Adding new user `motion' (UID 103) with group `nogroup' ...
> Not creating home directory `/home/motion'.
> # apt-get install motion
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Suggested packages:
> mysql-client postgresql-client
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> motion
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/293kB of archives.
> After this operation, 897kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> Selecting previously deselected package motion.
> (Reading database ... 202389 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking motion (from .../motion_3.2.11-2build1_i386.deb) ...
> Processing triggers for man-db ...
> Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
> Setting up motion (3.2.11-2build1) ...
> chown: invalid group: `motion:motion'
> dpkg: error processing motion (--configure):
> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> motion
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> #
>
> FIX :
> Submitted to Debian and patch available for Ubuntu motion 3.2.11-2build1
> Replace the function 'id' with 'getent' to check if group motion exists.
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