chown: invalid group: ‘root:root’

[francois]

Trying to build some packages under porteus I get the following error message:

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chown: invalid group: ‘root:root’

I imagine this is normal as:

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root@porteus:~# id
uid=0(root) gid=0 groups=0,1,2,3,4,6,10
root@porteus:~#

For more info on group and use management:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Users_and_Groups

What is there to do?

[fanthom]

please point me to packages (slackbuilds if possible) which does not compile because of this error.

[francois]

We are talking about slackbuild cups-filters 1.0.43:
https://github.com/willysr/SlackHacks/t ... ps-filters

The offending line seems to be at the end:

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chown -R root: root .
find -L . \

Thanks.

[brokenman]

change it to: chown -R root .

[fanthom]

this slackbuild looks ok for me. please post last few lines of it's output i(ncluding the error you are getting).
thanks

[francois]

@fanthom:

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root@porteus:~# cd /mnt/sda5/64bit_v30/porteus/test-cups/cups-filter/
root@porteus:/mnt/sda5/64bit_v30/porteus/test-cups/cups-filter# ./cups-filters.SlackBuild
cups-filters-1.0.43/
cups-filters-1.0.43/Makefile.in
cups-filters-1.0.43/install-sh
cups-filters-1.0.43/scripting/
cups-filters-1.0.43/scripting/php/...
...
cups-filters-1.0.43/filter/pdftopdf/nup.cc
cups-filters-1.0.43/filter/rastertoescpx.c
cups-filters-1.0.43/filter/texttopdf.c
cups-filters-1.0.43/filter/pdfutils.c
cups-filters-1.0.43/filter/getline.c
cups-filters-1.0.43/filter/urftopdf.cpp
chown: cannot access ‘root’: No such file or directory

Thanks.

[fanthom]

i think there was a typo in the slackbuild when you posted this code before:

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chown -R root: root .
find -L . \

(mind extra space between root: root)
seems that it's not there anymore. please download this slackbuild again. if you still get this error then please check if you are affected by /etc/group bug as described here: http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php? ... 029#p21021