Subject: Re: bug#22626: Postgres service fails on adding user

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 11:07:48 +0100

Christopher Allan Webber <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Heya all... guix system config attached.  I tried doing a guix system
> reconfigure and it failboat'ed.  Here's what happened:
>
>   adding user 'postgres'...
>   useradd: group 'postgres' does not exist

Normally just above that there should be:

  adding group 'postgres'

Could it be that adding the group silently failed?  What does /etc/group
shows?

(When testing in ‘guix system vm’, everything works well.)

Thanks,
Ludo’.