package festival (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: exit status 1 - useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later.

Asked by Bjarke Freund-Hansen

Binary package hint: festival

festival failed to upgrade on dist-upgrade from karmic to lucid. After the restart apport had this bug report for me.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: festival (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Apr 30 08:55:32 2010
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
SourcePackage: festival
Title: package festival (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

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Bjarke Freund-Hansen (bjarkefh) said :
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Michael Vogt (mvo) said :
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Setting up festival (1.96~beta-10ubuntu1) ...
useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later.
adduser: `/usr/sbin/useradd -d /home/festival -g audio -s /bin/false -u 124 festival' returned error code 1. Exiting.
dpkg: error processing festival (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

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Andreas Moog (ampelbein) said :
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This is mostly caused by a stale lock-file and not a bug in festival. Therefore converting to a question in our answer-tracker.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said :
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