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landscape-client package

package landscape-common 1.0.23-0ubuntu0.8.10.1 failed to install/upgrade:

Bug #291337 reported by marcw on 2008-10-31

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #238755: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user, after "passwd -l root". Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	landscape-client (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: landscape-client

Failure occurred during an upgrade from Hardy to Intrepid

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage:
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: landscape-common 1.0.23-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: landscape-client
Title: package landscape-common 1.0.23-0ubuntu0.8.10.1 failed to install/upgrade:
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-generic i686

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marcw (marcw) wrote on 2008-10-31:

Dependencies.txt Edit (1.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
VarLogDistupgradeAptlog.gz Edit (5.5 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog.gz Edit (39.8 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeMainlog.gz Edit (9.4 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog.gz Edit (43.0 KiB, application/x-gzip)

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Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack) wrote on 2008-10-31:

This is the error:
Setting up landscape-common (1.0.23-0ubuntu0.8.10.1) ...
Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator
chfn: PAM authentication failed
adduser: `/usr/bin/chfn -f Landscape Client Daemon landscape' returned error code 1. Exiting.
dpkg: error processing landscape-common (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Your root account was probably locked with "passwd -l". We have seen this before, and it's actually bug #238755. The fix for Hardy is still not available, though.