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Bug#1126595: dbus-system-bus-common: fatal: The user `messagebus' already exists and has a password

From Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject Bug#1126595: dbus-system-bus-common: fatal: The user `messagebus' already exists and has a password
Date 2026-01-29 16:40 +0100
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Hi.

If edit /etc/shadow by hand and remove the "*", like this:

messagebus:!:20294::::::

then I can "apt-get build-dep gcp" again inside the chroot.

Simple questions:

- It is correct or incorrect for trixie images to have "!*" in the
messagebus user?

- It is correct or incorrect for adduser/useradd to say that the user
has a password when it has "!*"?

Note that regardless of the supported/unsupported status of schroot
backend of sbuild, the above issues may have implications regarding
upgrades from trixie to forky.

Thanks.

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Bug#1126595: dbus-system-bus-common: Many packages FTBFS with the nocheck build profile due to weird dbus/adduser error Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2026-01-29 15:00 +0100
  Bug#1126595: dbus-system-bus-common: fatal: The user `messagebus' already exists and has a password Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> - 2026-01-29 15:20 +0100
  Bug#1126595: dbus-system-bus-common: Many packages FTBFS with the nocheck build profile due to weird dbus/adduser error Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> - 2026-01-29 16:20 +0100
    Bug#1126595: dbus-system-bus-common: fatal: The user `messagebus' already exists and has a password Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2026-01-29 18:20 +0100
      Bug#1126595: dbus-system-bus-common: fatal: The user `messagebus' already exists and has a password Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> - 2026-01-29 19:50 +0100
      Bug#1126595: dbus-system-bus-common: fatal: The user `messagebus' already exists and has a password Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2026-01-31 13:00 +0100
  Bug#1126595: dbus-system-bus-common: fatal: The user `messagebus' already exists and has a password Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> - 2026-01-29 16:40 +0100
  Bug#1126595: dbus-system-bus-common: fatal: The user `messagebus' already exists and has a password Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> - 2026-01-29 17:20 +0100

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