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[Robie Basak <1372051@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Niklas, marking Invalid as advised.

** Changed in: ntp (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Invalid

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

Status in ntp package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

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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