Thursday, 16 October 2014

Issue with libuuid package during Ubuntu 14.10 upgrade

Got the following error while upgrading from  Ubuntu 14.04 to 14.10

Setting up libuuid1:amd64 (2.25.1-3ubuntu2) ...
chsh: PAM: Authentication failure
dpkg: error processing package libuuid1:amd64 (--install):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

The post install script was using the chsh program to change the shell of libuuid user to /bin/false only if it was currently set to /bin/sh.

Changing this manually by editing /etc/passwd allowed the package install to continue as normal and all dependent packages to install also.

I had to do an apt-get update && apt-get upgrade to continue with the installation of updates after this was resolved.
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4 comments:

  1. Rushikesh Deshpande3 March 2016 at 18:51

    Can you explain more

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  2. Rushikesh Deshpande3 March 2016 at 18:51

    Can you explain more

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  3. Guy Thouret23 May 2016 at 02:08

    I edited /etc/passwd to set the shell for libuuid user to /bin/false so the chsh program didn' execute during package install and completed successfully.

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  4. Guy Thouret23 May 2016 at 02:11

    Could have done the same with:
    sudo usermod -s /bin/false libuuid

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