[Bug 955523] Re: chown: cannot access `/var/lib/colord': No such file or directory

[Michael Terry]

I was about to SRU this, but just wanted to ask why I can't reproduce in
my chroot.  For me, I basically see this in the console (I removed
dependency info):

Selecting previously deselected package libcolord1.
Unpacking libcolord1 (from .../libcolord1_0.1.12-1ubuntu2.1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package colord.
Unpacking colord (from .../colord_0.1.12-1ubuntu2.1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up libcolord1 (0.1.12-1ubuntu2.1) ...
Setting up colord (0.1.12-1ubuntu2.1) ...
Adding system user `colord' (UID 101) ...
Adding new user `colord' (UID 101) with group `colord' ...
Creating home directory `/var/lib/colord' ...
Adding user colord to group scanner

So it looks like it gets created fine as part of adding the colord user.
In what situations does adding the colord user not create its home
folder?

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Title:
  chown: cannot access `/var/lib/colord': No such file or directory

Status in “colord” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “colord” source package in Oneiric:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  == SRU Reasoning ==
  This breaks the installation of ubuntu-desktop in a clean, minimal oneiric chroot.

  The fix is a trivial postinst fix.

  == SRU Test ==
  * schroot -c oneiric-amd64 (basically, grab a clean, minimal chroot)
  * apt-get install colord
  * Success: it installs, Failure: configuration fails

  == Original Report ==

  Upgraded from 11.04 to 11.10 and get the following:

  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
  A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
  Setting up colord (0.1.12-1ubuntu2.1) ...
  chown: cannot access `/var/lib/colord': No such file or directory
  dpkg: error processing colord (--configure):
   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   colord

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: colord 0.1.12-1ubuntu2.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-13.57-generic 2.6.38.8
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-13-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Wed Mar 14 17:42:46 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
   SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
  SourcePackage: colord
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2012-03-14 (0 days ago)

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