Re: Systemd Craziness

[Robert McBroom]

On 3/9/25 2:06 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 06:45:24PM +0100, Michal Schorm wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > this seems like a series of standalone issues caused by implementation
> > of this F42 Change:
> >    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RPMSuportForSystemdSysusers
> >
> > Specifically for 'sphinx' it recently gained this commit:
> >    https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/sphinx/c/7e51c472a?branch=rawhide
> > but it wasn't even built yet, nor merged to older releases than Rawhide.
> > So I'm not sure what's going on there.
> >
> > I'm adding Zbyszek to CC, he is likely the most competent person to
> > answer these behaviors related to that Change.
>
> That is an error message from systemd-sysusers, when it writing a new
> version of the groups file and copying existing groups. It looks like
> the line for group 'input' is considered invalid for some reason.
>
> Please show your /etc/group.

That doesn't sound good to me that /etc/group should be rewritten willy 
nilly.  Not sure about putting /etc/group in public.

The pertinent section seems to be

clevis:x:997:
input:x:996:root:rm3
kvm:x:36:qemu,root
render:x:995:
systemd-journal:x:190:
systemd-coredump:x:994:
systemd-network:x:192:
systemd-resolve:x:193:
dbus:x:81:

Systemd Craziness

[Jonathan Billings]

> On Mar 9, 2025, at 16:35, Robert McBroom via users  wrote:
> > On 3/9/25 2:06 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> >
> > Please show your /etc/group.
>
> That doesn't sound good to me that /etc/group should be rewritten willy nilly.  Not sure about putting /etc/group in public.

Before systemd-sys users was created, RPMs often added groups during install or updates.  Not a huge surprise.
> The pertinent section seems to be
>
> clevis:x:997:
> input:x:996:root:rm3
> kvm:x:36:qemu,root
> render:x:995:
> systemd-journal:x:190:
> systemd-coredump:x:994:
> systemd-network:x:192:
> systemd-resolve:x:193:
> dbus:x:81:

It looks like you broke your input group by having five items in that entry, there should be four.  The last part of the colon-delimited entry is a username list, using a comma, not another colon. Look at how the kvm group was done.

Read this for more detail:

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/group.5.html