[ic] Interchange 4.8.3 and 4.8.6 installation on debian woody fails.

[Stefan Hornburg]

On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 13:50:25 +0100
"Matthew Smith" <hazed@xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Quoting Racke ():
> 
> >Hello, Matthew !
> >
> >I have no idea why this should fail in the addgroup command. As a
> workaround,
> >create the interchange user/group before installation:
> >
> >addgroup interchange
> >adduser --system --ingroup interchange --home /usr/lib/interchange
> interchange
> >
> >Ciao
> >        Racke
> 
> Hi Racke,
> 
> Thanks for your reply, but alas it helps not. Now when I try to install
> interchange it doesn't ask me whether I want to create the user and group,
> it just goes ahead and does it and still hangs at the point where it says
> adding system group: .
> 
> I did purge the configs from dselect before attempting reinstallation. Don't
> know if that makes a difference...

Can you send the complete installation output to me ?

Do you use authentication against /etc/passwd or something different ?

Bye
      Racke