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[Ryan Harper <1372051@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This command:

addgroup --system --quiet ntp

is idempotent on default precise systems, so it's not quite clear why it
fails on your system.  Maybe it's possible to do some debugging on
running that command.

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS \n \l

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ dpkg --list | grep ntp
ii  ntp                              1:4.2.6.p3+dfsg-1ubuntu3.4        Network Time Protocol daemon and utility programs
ii  ntpdate                          1:4.2.6.p3+dfsg-1ubuntu3.4        client for setting system time from NTP servers
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ grep ntp /etc/group
ntp:x:112:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo addgroup --system --quiet ntp; echo $?
0

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1372051

Title:
  ntp postinst user/group add commands are not idempotent

Status in ntp package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  At do release upgrade from 12.04.05 to 14.04.01, the ntp package failed:
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   ntp
  Error in function: 

  
  A fatal error occurred 

  Please report this as a bug and include the files 
  /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log and /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log in 
  your report. The upgrade has aborted. 
  Your original sources.list was saved in 
  /etc/apt/sources.list.distUpgrade. 

  SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


  Could not install the upgrades

  The upgrade has aborted. Your system could be in an unusable state. A 
  recovery will run now (dpkg --configure -a). 

  Please report this bug in a browser at 
  http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+filebug 
  and attach the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ to the bug report. 
  installArchives() failed 

  Setting up ntp (1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2) ...
  dpkg: error processing package ntp (--configure):
   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   ntp

  Upgrade complete

  The upgrade has completed but there were errors during the upgrade 
  process. 


  In /var/lib/dpkg/info/ntp.postinst the add group / adduser commands fail due to already existing group / user.
  Appended “ || /bin/true” to those lines, and “dpkg —configure ntp” succeeded.

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