[Bug 1823125] Re: tomcat9 fails to install in 18.04

[Balint Reczey]

Fixed it in tomcat9 only, by not setting shell in sysusers.d/tomcat9.conf .
The slightly ugly part is that systemd sets the default shell to 
/sbin/nologin , not /usr/sbin/nologin that exists on Ubuntu.
The effect is the same, user can't log in it is just a little ugly and with mergedusr the problem goes away thus I have not filed a bug for it.

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Title:
  tomcat9 fails to install in 18.04

Status in systemd package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in tomcat9 package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in systemd source package in Bionic:
  New
Status in tomcat9 source package in Bionic:
  New
Status in systemd source package in Cosmic:
  Fix Released
Status in tomcat9 source package in Cosmic:
  Fix Released
Status in systemd source package in Disco:
  Fix Released
Status in tomcat9 source package in Disco:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  # apt install tomcat9
  ...
  Setting up tomcat9 (9.0.16-3~18.04) ...
  [/usr/lib/sysusers.d/tomcat9.conf:7] Trailing garbage.

  Creating config file /etc/tomcat9/tomcat-users.xml with new version
  chown: invalid group: ‘root:tomcat’
  dpkg: error processing package tomcat9 (--configure):
   installed tomcat9 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
  Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ...
  Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-20) ...
  Processing triggers for systemd (237-3ubuntu10.15) ...
  Processing triggers for ca-certificates (20180409) ...
  Updating certificates in /etc/ssl/certs...
  0 added, 0 removed; done.
  Running hooks in /etc/ca-certificates/update.d...

  done.
  done.
  Processing triggers for rsyslog (8.32.0-1ubuntu4) ...
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   tomcat9
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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