[HADOOP-8716] Users/Groups are not created during installation of DEB package

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 1.0.3, 1.1.2, 1.2.1
• Component/s: scripts
• Labels: install

Environment

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
x64

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Mikhail
• Created: 21/Aug/12 13:21
• Updated: 14/Sep/14 18:41
• Resolved: 14/Sep/14 18:41

Description

During DEB x64 package installation I got the following errors:

mak@mak-laptop:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -i hadoop_1.0.3-1_x86_64.deb
[sudo] password for mak:
Selecting previously unselected package hadoop.
(Reading database ... 195000 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking hadoop (from hadoop_1.0.3-1_x86_64.deb) ...
groupadd: GID '123' already exists
Setting up hadoop (1.0.3) ...
chown: invalid group: `root:hadoop'
chown: invalid group: `root:hadoop'
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot

Group with ID=123 already exists and belongs to 'saned' according to my /etc/group: saned:x:123:

Also, during first run I see the following:
mak@mak-laptop:~/Downloads$ sudo service hadoop-namenode start

• Starting Apache Hadoop Name Node server hadoop-namenode start-stop-daemon: user 'hdfs' not found

This user wasn't created during installation.