Bug 20290 - Upgrade to Mageia 6 doesn’t remove the deprecated halt user
Summary: Upgrade to Mageia 6 doesn’t remove the deprecated halt user
Status: RESOLVED OLD
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal minor
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Assignee: Base system maintainers
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Reported: 2017-02-14 23:30 CET by Davy Defaud
Modified: 2020-07-13 12:05 CEST (History)
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Source RPM: setup-2.7.24-1.mga6.src.rpm
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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
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