rpm warns user does not exist

[spuder]

When you install the 64 bit rpm on cent 6, you get the following warning

id: influxdb: No such user
influxdb Process is not running [ FAILED ]

However if you then run id influxdb manually, everything appears normally.

I suspect that the user needs to be created earlier on in the spec file scripts

[root@influxdb ~]# wget http://s3.amazonaws.com/influxdb/influxdb-latest-1.x86_64.rpm
--2014-06-20 17:18:33--  http://s3.amazonaws.com/influxdb/influxdb-latest-1.x86_64.rpm
Resolving s3.amazonaws.com... 207.171.187.117
Connecting to s3.amazonaws.com|207.171.187.117|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 6293394 (6.0M) [application/x-rpm]
Saving to: “influxdb-latest-1.x86_64.rpm”

100%[====================================================================================================================>] 6,293,394   1.94M/s   in 3.1s    

2014-06-20 17:18:36 (1.94 MB/s) - “influxdb-latest-1.x86_64.rpm” saved [6293394/6293394]

[root@influxdb ~]# sudo rpm -ivh influxdb-latest-1.x86_64.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:influxdb               ########################################### [100%]
id: influxdb: No such user
influxdb Process is not running [ FAILED ]
[root@influxdb ~]# /etc/init.d/influxdb start
Starting the process influxdb [ OK ]
influxdb process was started [ OK ]
[root@influxdb ~]# id influxdb
uid=498(influxdb) gid=498(influxdb) groups=498(influxdb)

[damm]

Deb packages also exhibit this

[porjo]

I've just installed using http://s3.amazonaws.com/influxdb/influxdb-latest-1.x86_64.rpm and am seeing the same error message as reported by @spuder

[jvshahid]

This will be fixed in the next release

[mowknow]

Just ran into this myself. For anyone interested, the problem is in /opt/influxdb/versions/0.7.3/scripts/post_install.sh. useradd uses at least one option (--system) that is not available on centos

[aviau]

This issue still happens with the latest release. (deb)
Downloaded two seconds ago (influxdb_latest_amd64.deb)