Sebastian Bremicker
2025-03-03 22:30:02 UTC
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PermalinkVersion: 1.4.7-3
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
on updating colord I encounter
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Setting up colord (1.4.7-3) ...
warn: The home dir /var/lib/colord you specified already exists.
fatal: The user `colord' already exists, but is not a system user. Exiting.
dpkg: error processing package colord (--configure):
installed colord package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 13
Errors were encountered while processing:
colord
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in /etc/passwd the user looks like a system user to me (low uid/gid):
colord:x:114:122:colord colour management daemon,,,:/var/lib/colord:/usr/sbin/nologi
Kind regards
Sebastian Bremicker
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.10.14 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages colord depends on:
ii acl 2.3.2-2+b1
ii adduser 3.143
ii colord-data 1.4.7-3
ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.40.0-5
ii libc6 2.41-3
ii libcolord2 1.4.7-3
ii libcolorhug2 1.4.7-3
ii libdbus-1-3 1.16.2-1
ii libglib2.0-0t64 2.83.5-1
ii libgudev-1.0-0 238-6
ii libgusb2 0.4.9-1+b1
ii liblcms2-2 2.16-2
ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 126-2
ii libsane1 1.3.1-1
ii libsqlite3-0 3.46.1-1
ii libsystemd0 257.3-1
ii polkitd 126-2
colord recommends no packages.
Versions of packages colord suggests:
pn colord-sensor-argyll <none>
-- no debconf information