Re: [gentoo-user] acct-user/man usermod: user 'man' does not exist in /etc/passwd

["J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>]

On Thursday, 11 April 2024 10:16:52 CEST Dale wrote:
> J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > On Thursday, 11 April 2024 03:23:22 CEST Dale wrote:
> >> Howdy,
> >> 
> >> This failed once before but I didn't worry about it.  However, since the
> >> profile update, it still fails.  I'd like to figure out how to fix it.
> >> I tried doing a emerge -C and then emerging it again.  No help.  This is
> >> the output.  It's not to long, whole thing.  :-D
> >> 
> >>>>> Failed to install acct-user/man-1-r3, Log file:
> >>>>>  '/var/log/portage/acct-user:man-1-r3:20240411-011746.log'
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Jobs: 0 of 1 complete, 1 failed                 Load avg: 2.12,
> > 
> > <snipped>
> > 
> >>  * FAILED postinst: 1
> >>  *
> >>  * The following package has failed to build, install, or execute
> >>  postinst:
> >>  *
> >>  *  (acct-user/man-1-r3:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge), Log
> >>  file:
> >>  *   '/var/log/portage/acct-user:man-1-r3:20240411-011746.log'
> >>  *
> >>  
> >>  * GNU info directory index is up-to-date.
> >> 
> >> (chroot) root@fireball / #
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Any ideas?  It did install once long ago when the group and user thing
> >> started.
> >> 
> >> Ideas??
> > 
> > First idea, if "man" exists, check if it matches current systems.
> > 
> > This is on a system less then 1 month old:
> > 
> > $ id man
> > uid=13(man) gid=15(man) groups=15(man)
> > 
> > --
> > Joost
> 
> Mine says: 
> 
> 
> root@fireball / # id man
> uid=14357(man) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),15(man)
> root@fireball / #
> 
> 
> It doesn't match yours but it has something there.  I'm surprised that
> doing a emerge -C and then emerging it again didn't fix it but I guess
> it adds something to those files but doesn't remove it when
> uninstalled.  So, I did some editing.  The old line, I commented it
> out.  Then it emerged and added the new line. 
> 
> 
> man:x:13:15:System user; man:/dev/null:/sbin/nologin
> #man:!:14357:0:99999:7:::
> 
> 
> With it set like that, it emerges.  This is what the output of your
> command looks like now. 
> 
> 
> root@fireball / # id man
> uid=13(man) gid=15(man) groups=15(man)
> root@fireball / #
> 
> 
> Now it matches yours. 
> 
> Is this a bug or something?  I don't tend to mess with that file
> myself.  :/
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-) 

You might have some files owned by an unknown user on your system now 
(especially man-pages?)

Looking back at the original error message, it did complain about "man" being 
part of the "root" group.
doing a usermod to remove that group would have worked as well.

--
Joost