[Bug 1039627] Re: etckeeper init with git gives error

[Andrew Gillard]

I see this same behaviour on two of my Ubuntu machines (one a VM, one a
physical host). Given that they both report the chgrp error on different
files, my initial suspicion is that the issue is related to the number
of packages installed or the number of files/directories in /etc.

root at hex:/etc# etckeeper init
chgrp: missing operand after `./X11/app-defaults'
Try `chgrp --help' for more information.

root at sek:/etc# etckeeper init
chown: missing operand after `./smokeping/smokeping_secrets'
Try `chown --help' for more information.

However, a third (much more recently-installed) Ubuntu VM ran `etckeeper
init` quite happily with no errors.

Responses to the details requested above:
root at sek:/etc# cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=quantal
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.10"

root at hex:/etc# cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=quantal
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.10"

root at sek:/etc# dpkg -l | grep etckeeper
ii  etckeeper                                     0.61ubuntu2                                all          store /etc in git, mercurial, bzr or darcs

root at hex:/etc# dpkg -l | grep etckeeper
ii  etckeeper                             0.61ubuntu2                               all          store /etc in git, mercurial, bzr or darcs

$LANG on both machines is en_GB.UTF-8.

As for the machine on which etckeeper *IS* working, these are the
details given for the same commands as above:

root at hat:/etc# cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=quantal
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.10"

root at hat:/etc# dpkg -l | grep etckeeper
ii  etckeeper                           0.61ubuntu2                               all          store /etc in git, mercurial, bzr or darcs

$LANG is also en_GB.UTF-8.

Will run the apport-collect commands now...

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