Re: Systemd Craziness

[Robert McBroom via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/10/25 4:20 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 04:34:35PM -0400, Robert McBroom wrote:
> > 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. 
> >       
> It's not "willy nilly". Addition of the group was requested by the package,
> which obviously means that the group file needs to be changed.
> (And it's just a text file. So modifying the file means to rewrite it.)
>
> > Not sure about putting /etc/group in public.
> >       
> I wouldn't have asked if it wasn't. There is very little private
> information there.
>
> > The pertinent section seems to be
> >
> > input:x:996:root:rm3
> >       
> This line seems be be corrupted.
> What does 'getent group input' say?
>
> Zbyszek
>     
    ~# getent group
        input
      
      error
        writing group entry: Invalid argument

Per Johnathon, replacing the colon with a comma

~# getent group input
input:x:996:root,rm3

On another install group input has no users list.

What should be there?

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