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prawn

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Registered: 2011-11-24

Posts: 10

[Solved] Leafnode upgrade issue

The package leafnode recently updated and stopped working.

The error message from fetchnews was:

no such user: 9

slrn also returned a similar error when connecting to localhost.  Port 119 was open, so there was no issue there.

I could not find a fix, so downloaded leafnode from sourceforge, made it myself and it's now working.

The following configuration of leafnode seemed to do the trick:

$ ./configure --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin
$ make
# make install

Solved

From Bug report https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/27242

The error is telling you that the user with UID 9 doesn't exist. The problem is the install scriptlet only checks for (and if necessary, creates) this user on install but not upgrade.

Install the package from community and run these commands as root:

groupadd -g 13 -r news
useradd -u 9 -r -m -g news news

Last edited by prawn (2011-11-25 02:44:37)

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: [Solved] Leafnode upgrade issue

You should report it in the bugtracker, the maintainer may not see this thread.

prawn

Member

Registered: 2011-11-24

Posts: 10

Re: [Solved] Leafnode upgrade issue

Ah, OK.

I've posted a bug report here https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/27242

Last edited by prawn (2011-11-24 10:41:34)