If you want to test, you can install udev, libudev, esysusers and
etmpfiles from system-gremlins. That should fix the errors, and that's
what it indeed did on a test box.
On 1/4/25 23:38, Xavier B. wrote:
> Same here.
> What can we do?
>
> Thanks Javier.
>
> On Sat, 4 Jan 2025 12:19:39 -0600
> Javier <je-vv at e.email> ha escrit:
>
>> Hello !
>>
>> Since some recent upgrades back, I'm getting this errors when some upgrades occur:
>>
>>> (1/3) Creating system user accounts...
>>> /usr/lib/sysusers.d/bind.conf:1: Unknown modifier 'u!'.
>>> /usr/lib/sysusers.d/dnsmasq.conf:1: Unknown modifier 'u!'.
>>> /usr/lib/sysusers.d/util-linux.conf:1: Unknown modifier 'u!'.
>> On the pacman logs the look like:
>>
>>> [timestamp] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] /usr/lib/sysusers.d/bind.conf:1: Unknown modifier 'u!'.
>>> [timestamp] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] /usr/lib/sysusers.d/dnsmasq.conf:1: Unknown modifier 'u!'.
>>> [timestamp] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] /usr/lib/sysusers.d/util-linux.conf:1: Unknown modifier 'u!'.
>> They are owned by:
>>
>>> % pacman -Qo /usr/lib/sysusers.d/bind.conf
>>> /usr/lib/sysusers.d/bind.conf is owned by bind 9.20.4-2
>>> % pacman -Qo /usr/lib/sysusers.d/dnsmasq.conf
>>> /usr/lib/sysusers.d/dnsmasq.conf is owned by dnsmasq 2.90-2
>>> % pacman -Qo /usr/lib/sysusers.d/util-linux.conf
>>> /usr/lib/sysusers.d/util-linux.conf is owned by util-linux 2.40.2-3
>> I started to notice this with the bind upgrade:
>>
>>> [2025-01-03T11:46:22-0600] [ALPM] upgraded bind (9.20.4-1 -> 9.20.4-2)
>>> [2025-01-03T11:46:24-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] /usr/lib/sysusers.d/bind.conf:1: Unknown modifier 'u!'.
>> Then with the dnsmasq upgrade we got an additional error:
>>
>>> [2025-01-03T18:22:28-0600] [ALPM] upgraded doxygen (1.12.0-3 -> 1.13.1-1)
>>> [2025-01-03T18:22:28-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] /usr/lib/sysusers.d/bind.conf:1: Unknown modifier 'u!'.
>>> [2025-01-03T18:22:28-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] /usr/lib/sysusers.d/dnsmasq.conf:1: Unknown modifier 'u!'.
>> And with the util-linux upgrade the last additional error:
>>
>>> [2025-01-04T11:25:56-0600] [ALPM] upgraded util-linux (2.40.2-2 -> 2.40.2-3)
>>> [2025-01-04T11:26:09-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] /usr/lib/sysusers.d/bind.conf:1: Unknown modifier 'u!'.
>>> [2025-01-04T11:26:09-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] /usr/lib/sysusers.d/dnsmasq.conf:1: Unknown modifier 'u!'.
>>> [2025-01-04T11:26:09-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] /usr/lib/sysusers.d/util-linux.conf:1: Unknown modifier 'u!'.
>> Anything missing, whether with these packages, or perhaps the pacman utiliy in charge of the user accounts? Perhaps there's some pending upgrade missing?
>>
>> Thanks !
>>
>> --
>> Javier
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