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Postgres service fails on adding user

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber <at> dustycloud.org>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22626: closed (Postgres service fails on adding user)
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 23:08:02 +0000

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From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber <at> dustycloud.org>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Postgres service fails on adding user
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 16:13:19 -0800

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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
  Backtrace:
  In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
    63: 19 [call-with-prompt prompt0 ...]
  In ice-9/eval.scm:
   432: 18 [eval # #]
  In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
  2401: 17 [save-module-excursion #<procedure 28dc940 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:4045:3 ()>]
  4050: 16 [#<procedure 28dc940 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:4045:3 ()>]
  1724: 15 [%start-stack load-stack ...]
  1729: 14 [#<procedure 28f3ea0 ()>]
  In unknown file:
     ?: 13 [primitive-load "/gnu/store/24mbii9wjlyzfzsqwfmcvz6vz2fv5n6g-guix-0.9.0.c3f29bc/bin/.guix-real"]
  In guix/ui.scm:
  1177: 12 [run-guix-command system "reconfigure" "guix-config.scm"]
  In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
   157: 11 [catch srfi-34 #<procedure 4fb2020 at guix/ui.scm:413:2 ()> ...]
   157: 10 [catch system-error ...]
  In guix/scripts/system.scm:
   701: 9 [process-action reconfigure ("guix-config.scm") ...]
  In guix/store.scm:
  1061: 8 [run-with-store # ...]
  In guix/scripts/system.scm:
   520: 7 [#<procedure 91f6f80 at guix/scripts/system.scm:520:13 (state)> #]
   302: 6 [#<procedure 9661740 at guix/scripts/system.scm:286:2 (state)> #]
  In unknown file:
     ?: 5 [primitive-load "/gnu/store/fnanaa7xalxa9h3yh1hpj3m5zgm9wasp-activate"]
  In ice-9/eval.scm:
   432: 4 [eval # ()]
  In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
   768: 3 [for-each #<procedure primitive-load (_)> #]
  In unknown file:
     ?: 2 [primitive-load "/gnu/store/hz2hnin6c12afvsyqxv0vs2rndxl9vpg-activate-servic
  e"]
  In ice-9/eval.scm:
   411: 1 [eval # ()]
  In unknown file:
     ?: 0 [getpw "postgres"]
  
  ERROR: In procedure getpw:
  ERROR: In procedure getpw: entry not found

Config attached.  Thanx!
 - cwebb

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From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber <at> dustycloud.org>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 22626-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22626: Postgres service fails on adding user
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 15:07:49 -0800

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Apparently there’s a stale lock file that prevents ‘groupadd’ from
> succeeding, maybe from an earlier crash or something?
>
> Could you forcefully remove /etc/*.lock and retry?

Well, that fixed it!  I guess I could have guessed by the context clues
being dumped into stdout... :)

Anyway, closed!

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