FreeNX bug and solution

[marstonstudio]

Here's something I ran into while installing FreeNX on Jaunty and a quick solution. Following the instructions here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FreeNX

apt would fail to fully configure nxserver and would throw error messages whenever i did anything using apt

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
5 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up freenx-server (0.7.3+teambzr104-0freenxteam1) ...
chown: invalid group: `nx:nx'
dpkg: error processing freenx-server (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of freenx-rdp:
freenx-rdp depends on freenx-server; however:
Package freenx-server is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing freenx-rdp (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of freenx-media:
freenx-media depends on freenx-server; however:
Package freenx-server is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing freenx-media (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of freenx:
freenx depends on freenx-server; however:
Package freenx-server is not configured yet.
freenx depends on freenx-media; however:
Package freenx-media is not configured yet.
freenx depends on freenx-rdp; however:
Package freenx-rdp is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing freenx (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of freenx-vnc:
freenx-vnc depends on frNo apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
eenx-server; however:
Package freenx-server is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing freenx-vnc (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
freenx-server
freenx-rdp
freenx-media
freenx
freenx-vnc
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)






The solution?

groupadd nx
apt-get upgrade

and everything is hunk dory again

[ricojonah]

Thanks for this info. I was having the same issue--this fixed it for me!