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[Ryan Harper <1372051@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

addgroup is a perl script, so you can inspect it to see what's going on.
You can get additional information about the error running with:

sudo VERBOSE=1 addgroup --system ntp

I think what we're seeing is that your ntp group is a user group (gid >=
1000) instead of a system group (gid < 1000).

>From your output above, it looks like you're hitting this logic:


if ($action eq "addsysgroup") {

    # Check if requested group already exists and we can exit safely
    my $ret = existing_group_ok($new_name, $new_gid);

    if ($ret == 3) {
        print STDERR "$0: " if $verbose;
        printf STDERR (gtx("The group `%s' already exists as a system group. Exiting.\n"), $new_name) if $verbose;
        exit RET_OK;
    }

    if ($ret == 1) {
        print STDERR "$0: " if $verbose;
        printf STDERR (gtx("The group `%s' already exists and is not a system group. Exiting.\n"), $new_name) if $verbose;
        exit RET_OBJECT_ALREADY_EXISTS;
    }


So, you're exiting 1 due to the gid of group ntp being > 1000.  The fix here would be to apt-get remove --purge ntp ; the --purge flag will trigger the ntp.postrm script to remove the group first.  Then when you re-install, it will install the ntp group with --system flag and allocate a GID under <1000.

See if that helps you moving forward.

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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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