Major Package upgrade from 1.559 to 1.560 on Debian systems fails with:
| dpkg: error processing jenkins (--configure): |
| subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 |
due to the:
| addgroup --system --quiet jenkins |
call in postinst without checking whether corresponding group already exists.
Problem introduced as of:
| commit 7216aab0d3f7215be7d71109936ad4b3aa0a583b |
| Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> |
| Date: Sun Nov 3 08:12:17 2013 -0500 |
| debian: Use a configurable group for the Jenkins user |
| Typical Debian practice is to have one equally-named group per system |
| user. Make that for the jenkins user by default, but allow it to be |
| overridden in /etc/default/jenkins, same as for the user name. |
This change also deleted the check for the existing Jenkins user (for whatever reason, but that's also broken).
I'm working on a fix/PR right now.
[JENKINS-22710] Broken Debian upgrades because postinst doesn't check for present group/user
Fix will be in 1.561.
Michael: The bot picks up the status change only if you write something like [FIXED JENKINS-22710] as commit message.
David O'Dwyer
added a comment - Can you confirm if this fix made it into 1.561? This seems still broken in 1.561, the postinst script doesn't contain any checks for present groups or users.
EDIT: Also verified that this is the case inside the .deb package and not only on my server.
Mathis Dirksen-Thedens
added a comment - - edited This seems still broken in 1.561, the postinst script doesn't contain any checks for present groups or users.
EDIT: Also verified that this is the case inside the .deb package and not only on my server. 
Gabriel Falkenberg
added a comment - We're also affected by the problem in 1.561 Sorry about that. As you can now see from the changelog (upcoming changes), this'll only be fixed in 1.562.
Mads Nielsen
added a comment - Still happening in 1.562:
Ubutu 14.04 runnning in Virtualbox.
dpkg: error processing package jenkins (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Mads Nielsen
added a comment - Still happening in 1.562:
Ubutu 14.04 runnning in Virtualbox.
dpkg: error processing package jenkins (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 
Andrew Erickson
added a comment - Getting this with 1.563 in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. 
Brendan Holmes
added a comment - Getting this with 1.564 in Lubuntu 14.04 LTS. Code changed in jenkins
User: Michael Prokop
Path:
debian/jenkins.postinst
http://jenkins-ci.org/commit/packaging/a1dad64020887cb53ab1ec6ca2d5077d4061786e
Log:
Debian postinst: check for present user/group before adding them
In git commit 7216aab0d the check for present user was removed
and therefore upgrading the Debian package on existing Jenkins
installations fails. Also the newly added code for adding a
configurable Jenkins group is missing a check for a possibly
already present Jenkins group.
Closes: JENKINS-22710
Originally-From: jenkins-ci.org/commit/core/1b706c194a44a4b49b6d8260fc8ded0a3f9fca06
Code changed in jenkins
User: Michael Prokop
Path:
debian/debian/jenkins.postinst
http://jenkins-ci.org/commit/jenkins/1b706c194a44a4b49b6d8260fc8ded0a3f9fca06
Log:
Debian postinst: check for present user/group before adding them
In git commit 7216aab0d the check for present user was removed
and therefore upgrading the Debian package on existing Jenkins
installations fails. Also the newly added code for adding a
configurable Jenkins group is missing a check for a possibly
already present Jenkins group.
Closes:
JENKINS-22710