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<p4r4>Shame.

<p4r4>arm support would be nice. ^_^

<youpi>* support would be nice

<youpi>contributions welcome

<p4r4>would love to but I suck at C

<youpi>that's not something that can't be fixed

<p4r4>Trying to fix it for like 15 years now. ^_^

<youpi>I used to suck a lot at C, too

<p4r4>Last couple months I follow mailing list closely - so who knows

<p4r4>time to bed. nighty, night.

<VedantT>Hello!

<VedantT>I am curious about group locking in a vm, is it due to another process modifying group information or the user being non-root? I tried creating a new group but I keep receiving these errors:

<VedantT>Example:

<VedantT>root@debian-hurd: ~# adduser test

<VedantT>Adding user 'test' ...

<VedantT>Adding new group 'test' (1001) ...

<VedantT>groupadd: cannot lock /etc/group; try again later.

<VedantT>adduser: '/usr/sbin/groupadd -g 1001 test' returned error code 10. Exiting.

<VedantT>I tried manually creating the user group and assigning a user ID:

<VedantT>groupadd -g 1001 test

<VedantT>useradd -u 1001 -g test -m -s /bin/bash test

<VedantT>Still does not work:( any suggestions?

<youpi1>oh, that's surprising

<youpi1>just to make sure, which version of passwd do you have (dpkg -l passwd)

<youpi1>?

<youpi1>normally such a lock would not survive a reboot, so at worse you can just reboot and that should "fix" it, but I guess you already tried that?

<VedantT>1:4.5-1.1

<youpi1>perhaps try to `apt-install passwd` so as to get the latest version

<youpi1>possibly that older version was using an older lock protocol which is bogus

<youpi1>(latest version is 1:4.13+dfsg1-1+b1)

<VedantT>Thanks! I rebooted the system again I'll see it the newer version fixes it. I see would running apt-get -f install, check for any new updates and builds?

<youpi1>-f install does not actually check for updates

<youpi1>it's `apt upgrade` that does it

<VedantT>I fixed it

<VedantT>thank you

<youpi1>VedantT: btw, just to make sure: we meet 3h from now, right ?

<youpi1>for some reason it seems that the last ics I got from you only starts on july 20th :)

<VedantT>I thought it was 1hr 30mins per UTC +2

<VedantT>4.30 to 5.30 was it?

<youpi1>in utc+2 it was 18:00 to 19:00

<youpi1>thus 21:30 - 22:30 in utc+5:30

<youpi1>but we can also meet between 4:30 and 5:30 in utc+2, I'm available

<VedantT>I see then it should be 3 hours my bad! I will update the meet dates asap

<VedantT>I would be available to meet in an hour :) Additionally, any installation, builds and navigation has to be done from the root?

<youpi1>installation needs to be done as root, yes. But builds you can do it as non-root

<youpi1>and navigation as non-root too

<damo22>welcome VedantT

<VedantT>:)

<damo22>its bad timezone for me though, i need to go to sleep now

<damo22>not that it matters

<youpi1>VedantT: so we can meet now ?

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