diff --git a/nfs-utils.changes b/nfs-utils.changes
index c3a5ea8..f2a1692 100644
--- a/nfs-utils.changes
+++ b/nfs-utils.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Nov 14 14:51:30 UTC 2016 - dimstar@opensuse.org
+
+- Also ignore errors on the first chown call: this can happen
+  especially in the build system when shadow is not present and
+  the user has not been generated in the %pre phase.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Oct 21 00:09:04 UTC 2016 - nfbrown@suse.com
 
diff --git a/nfs-utils.spec b/nfs-utils.spec
index bcefe3a..0e7e512 100644
--- a/nfs-utils.spec
+++ b/nfs-utils.spec
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ useradd -r -c 'NFS statd daemon' \
 %service_add_pre nfs
 
 %post -n nfs-client
-chown statd:nogroup %{_localstatedir}/lib/nfs
+chown statd:nogroup %{_localstatedir}/lib/nfs > /dev/null 2>&1 || :
 for i in state sm sm.bak; do
 	chown -R statd %{_localstatedir}/lib/nfs/$i > /dev/null 2>&1 || :
 done