Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 12:03:03 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: desktop@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 259523] audio/pulseaudio: pw: user 'pulse' disappeared during update Message-ID: <bug-259523-39348-RdXdXQF5qX@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> In-Reply-To: <bug-259523-39348@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> References: <bug-259523-39348@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D259523 Adriaan de Groot <adridg@freebsd.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |adridg@freebsd.org Status|New |In Progress --- Comment #10 from Adriaan de Groot <adridg@freebsd.org> --- This PR is getting bogged down in chat about FreeBSD version upgrades, rath= er than the original issue of creating a user for pulseaudio. - Please check if the problem still exists (and if it does not, close this = PR or add a note saying so). - If the problem **does** still exist, try the following: - Look if there is a "pulse" user already on the system, e.g. ``` $ grep pulse /etc/passwd=20 pulse:*:563:563:PulseAudio System User:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin ``` - Look if there is a user ID 563 already on the system, e.g. ``` $ grep 563 /etc/passwd=20 pulse:*:563:563:PulseAudio System User:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin ``` - I'm going to assume, since pw is reporting "user disappeared", that the answer to both of the above is "no" and you get no output from grep. If you= get any output from grep that does not match the above, you have an unusual or messed-up user-id situation, which you need to resolve first. - Create the user by hand (now as root), ``` # pw useradd -n pulse -u 563 -g pulse \ -d /nonexistent -s /usr/sbin/nologin -c "PulseAudio System User" ``` - Assuming that succeeded, run grep again (the first two steps) to double-check the output. If not, you have an issue with the password subsys= tem which needs to be resolved first. - Now install pulseaudio again. **This** time, since the user already exi= sts, I would expect "Using existing user.." kinds of messages and the installati= on to succeed. --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.=
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