[Bug 677764] Re: package vsftpd (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Serge Hallyn]

Thanks for reporting this bug and helping to make ubuntu
better.  This is interesting - it looks as though the install
script thought that you already had a user and group named
ftp.  I suspect you have a group which starts with 'ftp'.  Can
you please provide the output of

        getent group | grep "^ftp"

To work around this, you should be able to simply create the
ftp user and group that it wanted to create.  Then re-install
the package.

However, this is a real bug in the postinst script which will
need to be fixed.  The '| grep "^${_USERNAME}"' must be
switched to "| grep "^${_USERNAME}:".


** Changed in: vsftpd (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: vsftpd (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

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package vsftpd (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/677764
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