Bug 498702 - cannot install inn (missing 'news' user)
Summary: cannot install inn (missing 'news' user)
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: inn
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ondrej Vasik
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-05-02 06:27 UTC by Carl Roth
Modified: 2009-05-30 02:31 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: 2.4.4-3.fc9
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2009-05-30 02:31:58 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)

Description Carl Roth 2009-05-02 06:27:09 UTC
Description of problem:

The current 'setup' RPM for F9 (2.6.18-3) does not install a 'news' user into /etc/passwd.  This causes problems with the inn RPM (2.4.4-1), which expects the 'news' user to already exist.  The release version of 'setup' (2.6.14-1) did originally include a 'news' user in the default passwd contents.

Note that for F10, the inn RPM (2.4.5-3) corrects this by adding a %pre step that creates the 'news' user if it does not already exist.

Unless we are planning to EOL F9 in the near future, we should probably back-port the SPEC scriptlets from 2.4.5-3 back to F9.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1.
2.
3.
  
Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:

Comment 1 Ondrej Vasik 2009-05-11 13:51:29 UTC
Thanks for report, removing news user from f-9 setup default /etc/passwd was not intentional, it was planned only for F-10+ (see comments #3 and #4 in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=437462 ). However harmless change, so will do cumulative update for F-9 inn soon.

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2009-05-11 19:13:34 UTC
inn-2.4.4-2.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/inn-2.4.4-2.fc9

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2009-05-12 04:11:53 UTC
inn-2.4.4-2.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing-newkey update inn'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2009-4849

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2009-05-15 23:28:39 UTC
inn-2.4.4-3.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing-newkey update inn'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2009-4849

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2009-05-30 02:31:54 UTC
inn-2.4.4-3.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.