[Bug 479493] Re: NTP services installation crashes

[Milan Bouchet-Valat]

Thanks for your report. I think you were right, this is a problem in ntp
and not in the gnome-system-tools. But luckily, I believe I've already
seen this problem, which has its root cause in yet another package (gdm-
guest-session).

The interesting part of the log is:
> Setting up ntp (1:4.2.4p6+dfsg-1ubuntu5) ...
> useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later.
> adduser: `/usr/sbin/useradd -d /home/ntp -g ntp -s /bin/false -u 117 ntp' returned error code 1. Exiting.

One workaround is to remove /etc/passwd.lock, and then to run 'sudo dpkg
--configure -a'. I think you're suffering from bug 432964. Can you
confirm the workaround is the right one?


** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

** Package changed: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) => ntp (Ubuntu)

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NTP services installation crashes
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