Bug 20290

Summary:	Upgrade to Mageia 6 doesn’t remove the deprecated halt user
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Davy Defaud <davy.defaud>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Base system maintainers <basesystem>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	Normal	CC:	fri, marja11
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	setup-2.7.24-1.mga6.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Davy Defaud 2017-02-14 23:30:02 CET

Description of problem:
When upgrading from an older Mageia version to Mageia 6, the deprecated halt user is not removed by the setup package.

I noticed that when running pwck. It is complaining about the halt user âshellâ which is /sbin/halt that is now provided by systemd as /usr/bin/halt:

# LANG=C pwck
user 'halt': program '/sbin/halt' does not exist

Setup package should check and remove the halt user when upgrading, because it doesnât create it on a fresh install.

Marja Van Waes 2017-02-15 09:28:07 CET

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => basesystem

Davy Defaud 2017-05-07 14:11:20 CEST

Summary: Upgrade to Mageia 6 doesnât remove the deprecated halt user => Upgrade to Mageia 6 doesn’t remove the deprecated halt user

Comment 1 Morgan Leijström 2020-07-13 12:05:14 CEST

Please reopen if this is still a problem upgrading to mga8

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD
CC: (none) => fri