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Subject: bug#22626: Postgres service fails on adding user
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 11:07:48 +0100
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Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> skribis:

> Heya all... guix system config attached.  I tried doing a guix system
> reconfigure and it failboat'ed.  Here's what happened:
>
>   adding user 'postgres'...
>   useradd: group 'postgres' does not exist

Normally just above that there should be:

  adding group 'postgres'

Could it be that adding the group silently failed?  What does /etc/group
shows?

(When testing in =E2=80=98guix system vm=E2=80=99, everything works well.)

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.