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Problem installing binary on debian

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Fri, 10/08/2010 - 21:43
martian
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Hello,

I am trying to install the membase binary on a ubuntu machine (64 bit) by typing:
sudo dpkg -i membase-server_1.6.0beta4_x86_64.deb.deb

Error messages:
Unpacking membase-server (from membase-server_1.6.0beta4_x86_64.deb.deb) ...
groupadd: invalid option -- r

dpkg: error processing membase-server_1.6.0beta4_x86_64.deb.deb (--install):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

Please help if you can. Thank you.

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Sat, 10/09/2010 - 04:02
elektron99
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Hi,
You should create manually group and user befrore install binary:
groupadd northscale
useradd -g northscale -d /opt/NorthScale -s /bin/bash -c "NorthScale system user" northscale

A.

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Sat, 10/09/2010 - 06:25
martian
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Hello Elektron,

The NorthScale server has been started.
Thanks very much!

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Sat, 10/09/2010 - 13:57
Perry Krug
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Martian, glad you got it worked out. Can you give me the specifics of the Ubuntu version you trying to install on?

Perry

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Sat, 10/09/2010 - 20:51
martian
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Sure, Perry:

I am using Alestic's 64-bit Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) image on AWS (ami-005db969)

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Sat, 10/09/2010 - 20:55
Perry Krug
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Thanks Martian, that's perfect. You might want to upgrade your image to the 9.x series or 10.x. We've done much more testing on those OS'es than the 8.x series but things should still work as expected.

Perry

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Thu, 02/17/2011 - 06:22
Art
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Cannot install from binary on Ubuntu 8.04 (32 bit).


root@4495:~# groupadd northscale
root@4495:~# useradd -g northscale -d /opt/NorthScale -s /bin/bash -c "NorthScale system user" northscale
root@4495:~#
root@4495:~# dpkg -i membase-server-community_x86_1.6.5.deb
(Reading database ... 47237 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking membase-server (from membase-server-community_x86_1.6.5.deb) ...
groupadd: invalid option -- 'r'
Usage: groupadd [options] GROUP


Options:
  -f, --force                   force exit with success status if the specified
                                group already exists
  -g, --gid GID                 use GID for the new group
  -h, --help                    display this help message and exit
  -K, --key KEY=VALUE           overrides /etc/login.defs defaults
  -o, --non-unique              allow create group with duplicate
                                (non-unique) GID


dpkg: error processing membase-server-community_x86_1.6.5.deb (--install):
 subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 membase-server-community_x86_1.6.5.deb
 

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Thu, 02/17/2011 - 09:24
serpigo
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 I'm getting this error as well. It's a problem with the preinstall script in the debian package.

 
 
 17 case "$1" in
 18     install|upgrade)
 19     getent group membase >/dev/null || groupadd -r membase || exit 1
 20     getent passwd membase >/dev/null || \
 21     useradd -r -g membase -d /opt/membase -s /bin/bash \
 22            -c "Membase system user" membase || exit 1
 23        exit 0
 24     ;;
 25
 groupadd is getting called with a -r. This flag is available only in RedHat. This shouldn't be in the debian package. A workaround is to add the group and user (membase/membase) manually. 

 

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Fri, 02/18/2011 - 04:56
Art
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Ok! It work!


thank you very much!

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