On 1/30/25 12:49 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
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
gnome-remote-desktop was installed dnf remove accessed the single rpm gnome-remote-desktop-0:47.3-1.fc41.x86_64 None of the the group entries are in /etc/group