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 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)

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Joost