Postinstall failure: file not found

Igor Pechtchanski pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Fri Apr 4 05:11:00 GMT 2003


On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 09:14:14PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >
> > Since this is happening on a clean install, I can only assume that there
> > is something wrong with the mkpasswd invocation...  But I'd be very
> > interested in Pierre's and Corinna's opinion on this.
>
> Igor, what's your reading of the log?
> We have a chicken and egg problem here. Perhaps mkpasswd works just
> fine but it was never called because passwd-grp.sh could not be
> found!
> [snip]

Ah, I didn't realize that the file could be renamed but not executed
(which is exactly what happened).

As for the log, it shows that none of the postinstall scripts were
executed (including passwd-grp.sh).
	Igor
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