Cloud Images Create netdev Group with Non System GID

[Shawn Weeks <sweeks@weeksconsulting.us>]

I’m not exactly sure where this issue should go in GitLab but it looks like the generic cloud images are creating the netdev group with a GID > 999 which causes anything that installs network-manager to fail since it expects netdev to have a GID < 1000. In my case I’m not actually trying to use network-manager but it’s installed by Gnome, Mate, Cinnamon, etc. Changing the GID to something like 126 and rebooting fixes the issue but since netdev is supposed to be a system group it shouldn’t be getting created with a GID of 1000. I looked through gitlab but could actually figure out where the netdev group is getting created so it’s possible this is cloud-init itself doing something wierd.

Thanks
Shawn