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From: n952162 <n952162@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] could there be a problem with acct-group/lp?
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2021 20:06:07
Message-Id: 1acb019f-8761-9d25-8ea7-bdf7189d8623@web.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] could there be a problem with acct-group/lp? by n952162
1 On 1/1/21 8:47 PM, n952162 wrote:
2 > On 12/31/20 2:14 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
3 >> On 12/31/20 2:34 AM, n952162 wrote:
4 >>>
5 >>> cups was already installed.  I considered removing it, but several
6 >>> other
7 >>> things, like ghostscript (!) are dependent on it.  I'm using
8 >>> --keep-going for now.  I suspect a bug in acct-group/lp that will get
9 >>> cleared up.
10 >>>
11 >>
12 >> If it's a bug in the acct-user eclass, it's a rare one. It would help
13 >> if you could pin down the root cause. It's not something easy like "it
14 >> fails if the user already exists." Every user and group ebuild is
15 >> already at "-r1", which means they've been reinstalled at least once
16 >> on most peoples' machines.
17 >>
18 >
19 > Perhaps this is relevant:
20 >
21 >   https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7975642.html
22 >
23 > I haven't tried commenting out the group yet because my update is still
24 > in progress...
25 >
26 > I'd considering removing the group, like, legally, but was afraid it
27 > might erase things, like my cups ppd files.  But just commenting the
28 > group out is genius.
29 >
30 >
31
32 No, I think I found a mistake on my system:
33
34   lp:x:7:lp:me
35
36 The last colon should be a comma.