dbus fails install on MacOS 12.6.3 (x86)

Scott Hannahs via Fink-users <[email protected]>
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I was trying to reinstall dbus and it fails 
Unpacking dbus (1.8.20-1) over (1.8.20-1) ...
Setting up dbus (1.8.20-1) ...
chown: messagebus: illegal user name
dpkg: error processing package dbus (--install):

and helpfully suggests that I reinstall passwd-message bus.

However that fails in trying to modify the entry for user messagebus.

So, I deleted the user “messagebus” (sudo dscl . delete /Users/messagebus) and then reinstall passwd-mesagebus (sudo fink reinstall passwd-messagebus)

I figured the would fix the issue.

BUT it remains.  For some reason the user “messagebus” created by fink is not eligible to be used as an argument to chown.

NOT sure what system update caused this issue.  But I can not even manually use “chown messagebus” on a file.  Obviously there needs to be an additional property set?

The messagebus record looks Ok to me.  But something is wrong.
% dscl . read /Users/messagebus   
dsAttrTypeNative:accountPolicyData:
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>creationTime</key>
	<real>1675639733.5092769</real>
</dict>
</plist>

dsAttrTypeNative:record_daemon_version: 8602000
AppleMetaNodeLocation: /Local/Default
GeneratedUID: 9332DA09-E597-476C-AE6F-95E392473D0C
NFSHomeDirectory: /opt/sw/var/run/dbus
Password: *
PrimaryGroupID: 113
RealName:
 messagebus (dbus) daemon,,,
RecordName: messagebus
RecordType: dsRecTypeStandard:Users
UniqueID: 613
UserShell: /dev/null
% 


I would also like to note that dbus1.3-shlibs is listed as version 1.8.20.  Which seems weird.
-Scott

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