Issues installing debian package for influxdb 1.11.8 release

[crypt1d]

The official images repo does not allow opening issues, so I'm reporting here. Apologizes if this is not the right place.

Steps to reproduce:

• Add repository deb https://repos.influxdata.com/debian stable main to apt sources
• Update apt cache
• Try to install influxdb

Expected behaviour: Influxdb installs without issues as it does with the previous version (1.11.7)

Actual behaviour: Installation throws an error related to useradd syntax:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  influxdb
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 29 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/26.6 MB of archives.
After this operation, 115 MB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 65788 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../influxdb_1.11.8-1_amd64.deb ...
useradd: invalid user ID '-m'
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/influxdb_1.11.8-1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 new influxdb package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 3
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/influxdb_1.11.8-1_amd64.deb

Environment info:

Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS Linux 6.8.0-1015-aws x86_64

[pandafy]

I extracted the control information of influxdb-1.11.7 and influxdb-1.11.8 packages using dpkg -e

The preinst script has the following difference:

# diff influxdb-1.11.7/preinst influxdb-1.11.8/preinst 
8c8
<     useradd --system -U -M influxdb -s /bin/false -d "${DATA_DIR}"
---
>     useradd --system -u -m influxdb -s /bin/false -d "${data_dir}"

The -u option specifies the user ID (uid) of the user, while the -U option creates a group with the same name as the user.

Is this change intentional? It seems all the uppercase variable names have been switched to lowercase, which might suggest it was unintentional.

[devanbenz]

I extracted the control information of influxdb-1.11.7 and influxdb-1.11.8 packages using dpkg -e

The preinst script has the following difference:

# diff influxdb-1.11.7/preinst influxdb-1.11.8/preinst 
8c8
<     useradd --system -U -M influxdb -s /bin/false -d "${DATA_DIR}"
---
>     useradd --system -u -m influxdb -s /bin/false -d "${data_dir}"

The -u option specifies the user ID (uid) of the user, while the -U option creates a group with the same name as the user.

Is this change intentional? It seems all the uppercase variable names have been switched to lowercase, which might suggest it was unintentional.

Hi @pandafy this is not intentional. We are looking in to what caused this change. This release is not a major release and as thus please feel free to continue operating with 1.11.7. We will be sure to update this thread once the resolution is in place. Thank you.

[bnpfeife]

@crypt1d @pandafy @devanbenz

Hey, I can confirm that those changes were unintentional. I've uploaded 1.11.8-2 packages that revert this change.