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[Hartmut Kabus <704835@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

dbus gets installed again if you temporarily delete user "messagebus" out of "/etc/passwd"; but new "messagebus" gets a different UID. To repair the system you should synchronize the UIDs over all the filesystem.
It would be the better way to patch the configure-script of package dbus to not add a new user in case of update (add only on new installation) or to ignore the error return of useradd in case of pe-existence of the user to add!

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Title:
  dbus package fails to upgrade because "messagebus" user already exists

Status in “dbus” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: dbus

  Release: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS 64 bit

  Package: dbus 1.2.16-2ubuntu4.1 amd64

  What happened: Update manager came up with important security updates:
  dbus, dbus-x11, libdus-1-3. Installation failed, log is pasted below:

  (Reading database ... 284653 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to replace libdbus-1-3 1.2.16-2ubuntu4 (using .../libdbus-1-3_1.2.16-2ubuntu4.1_amd64.deb) ...
  Unpacking replacement libdbus-1-3 ...
  Preparing to replace dbus 1.2.16-2ubuntu4 (using .../dbus_1.2.16-2ubuntu4.1_amd64.deb) ...
  Unpacking replacement dbus ...
  Preparing to replace dbus-x11 1.2.16-2ubuntu4 (using .../dbus-x11_1.2.16-2ubuntu4.1_amd64.deb) ...
  Unpacking replacement dbus-x11 ...
  Processing triggers for man-db ...
  Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
  Setting up libdbus-1-3 (1.2.16-2ubuntu4.1) ...

  Setting up dbus (1.2.16-2ubuntu4.1) ...
  The system user `messagebus' already exists.  Exiting.
  Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
  dpkg: error processing dbus (--configure):
   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of dbus-x11:
   dbus-x11 depends on dbus; however:
    Package dbus is not configured yet.
  dpkg: error processing dbus-x11 (--configure):
   dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
  Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
  ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
  No apport report written because the error message indicates it's a follow-up error from a previous failure.
                              Errors were encountered while processing:
   dbus
   dbus-x11
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
  A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
  Setting up dbus (1.2.16-2ubuntu4.1) ...
  The system user `messagebus' already exists.  Exiting.

  ProblemType: Package
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: dbus 1.2.16-2ubuntu4.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-27.49-generic 2.6.32.26+drm33.12
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-27-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Jan 19 09:54:10 2011
  ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
  SourcePackage: dbus
  Title: package dbus 1.2.16-2ubuntu4.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

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