GNU bug report logs - #22626
Postgres service fails on adding user

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber <at> dustycloud.org>

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 00:14:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber <at> dustycloud.org>

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber <at> dustycloud.org>
Cc: 22626 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22626: Postgres service fails on adding user
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 11:07:48 +0100

Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber <at> dustycloud.org> 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’.
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