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boinc package

  1. Bug #583434
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 583434

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Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote : Re: package boinc-client (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: il sottoprocesso vecchio script di post-removal ha restituito lo stato di errore 1 (deluser related)

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).