package boinc-client (not installed) failed to uninstall: post-removal: deluser: "user currently logged in"

Hi Stefano, could you try to do an
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get install boinc ???

thanks

Hi LocutusOfBorg, i reported this issue because i wasn't installing boinc, but removing it while
i read this message...

so what about
sudo apt-get purge boinc ?

It works... but don't you think it's weird to have this message in this case?

Maybe was a bad update on your machine...

So, If you agree and if your bug is fixed (and doesn't happen anymore) I close this bug as "invalid".

Please feel free to reopen if you don't agree with me

@LocutusOfBorg: this is clearly a bug and needs proper fixing, not invalidating:

@Stefano: Please translate "/usr/sbin/deluser: «/usr/sbin/userdel boinc» ha restituito l'errore con codice 8. Uscita.", from the error below:
  Rimozione di boinc-client...
   * Stopping BOINC core client: boinc
     ...done.
  Eliminazione dei file di configurazione di boinc-client...
  Rimozione dell'utente «boinc» ...
  Attenzione: il gruppo «boinc» non ha alcun membro.
  userdel: l'utente boinc è attualmente collegato
  /usr/sbin/deluser: «/usr/sbin/userdel boinc» ha restituito l'errore con codice 8. Uscita.
  dpkg: errore nell'elaborare boinc-client (--purge):
   il sottoprocesso vecchio script di post-removal ha restituito lo stato di errore 1

I guess it says something along "User does not exist anymore".

In this case, it's clearly no error and the post-removal script should just carry on.

"/usr/sbin/deluser: «/usr/sbin/userdel boinc» ha restituito l'errore con codice 8. Uscita."

means

the command userdel boinc gave the error 8, exiting

(sorry about closing this bug, I didn't read the bug carefully)

Thanks for your reply.

According to userdel(8) error code 8 means "user currently logged in".

This seems odd, given that "Attenzione: il gruppo «boinc» non ha alcun membro." probably means "the group boinc has no user".

@Stefano:
1. Please provide the output of "grep boinc /etc/passwd" here.
2. Do you have manually created the local user account "boinc" on your system?
3. Has there been somebody logged in during removal of the boinc package?

I'm not sure about a fix yet, but it still looks like this error should get ignored: the user has not been created via the boinc package after all apparently.
Additionally, it appears to be wrong to delete the user anyhow (if the package has not created it itself).

Just for clarification, this probably happened during removal of the package - see the duplicate bug 641172.

This bug was fixed in the package boinc - 6.10.58+dfsg-3

---------------
boinc (6.10.58+dfsg-3) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Steffen Moeller ]
  * Bumped policy to 3.9.1.0
  * Added the first graphical libraries as suggested
    dependencies of the boinc-manager package.

  [ Daniel Hahler ]
  * debian/boinc-client.init: wait until BOINC has ended for "stop"
    action. This fixes the post-removal script to be run too early,
    when the system user might be still logged in and cannot be
    deleted (LP: #583434). It also fixes the "restart" action.
  * debian/boinc-client.init: schedule: do not fail if chrt fails
    (LP: #629649).
 -- Daniel Hahler <email address hidden> Sun, 26 Sep 2010 13:56:51 +0000