Re: systemd errors

On Thu, 2025-01-30 at 12:27 -0500, Robert McBroom wrote:
> dnf updates keep ending with the following--
> 
>  >>> Running trigger-install scriptlet: systemd-0:256.11-1.fc41.x86_64
>  >>> Finished trigger-install scriptlet: systemd-0:256.11-1.fc41.x86_64
>  >>> Scriptlet output:
>  >>> Creating group 'gamemode' with GID 996.
>  >>> Creating group 'stapunpriv' with GID 159.
>  >>> Creating group 'gnome-remote-desktop' with GID 995.
>  >>> Creating user 'gnome-remote-desktop' (GNOME Remote Desktop) with 
> UID 995 and GID 995.
>  >>> Creating group 'passim' with GID 994.
>  >>> Creating user 'passim' (Local Caching Server) with UID 994 and GID 994.
>  >>> Creating user 'stapunpriv' (systemtap unprivileged user) with UID 
> 159 and GID 159.
>  >>> Failed to add existing group "wheel" to temporary group file: 
> Invalid argument
>  >>>
>  >>> Running trigger-install scriptlet: systemd-0:256.11-1.fc41.x86_64
>  >>> Finished trigger-install scriptlet: systemd-0:256.11-1.fc41.x86_64
>  >>> Scriptlet output:
>  >>> /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/gnome-remote-desktop-tmpfiles.conf:2: Failed to 
> resolve user 'gnome-remote-desktop': No such process
>  >>> /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/gnome-remote-desktop-tmpfiles.conf:3: Failed to 
> resolve user 'gnome-remote-desktop': No such process
>  >>>
> 
> I don't use gnome. What is happening with all these strage groups that 
> systemd is trying to create?

This is likely fallout from
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RPMSuportForSystemdSysusers -
the mechanism has been around for a while, but a lot of packages have
been changed to adopt it this cycle.

/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/gnome-remote-desktop-tmpfiles.conf is part of
gnome-remote-desktop, so even though you don't use GNOME, maybe you
have that package installed for some reason? Can you check? If so, you
could try removing it, maybe you don't need it - though this does look
like a bug that it'd be good to fix.

I'm not sure if the error on "wheel" is *causing* the g-r-d error,
either...CCing Zbigniew, who's looking after this Change, to see if he
can make anything of these errors.
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