Am 12.06.25 um 23:27 schrieb Theodore Ts'o:
Creating group 'polkitd' with GID 989. <---- We created the polkitd group here Creating user 'polkitd' (User for polkitd) with UID 989 and GID 989. chown: invalid group: ‘root:polkitd’ <---------- Huh?!?!?
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So this is a really big mystery. I've cc'ed folks who are involved with polkitd and debianutils, as well as sending this query to the ppc64el developers, hoping that someone can give me a hint as to what might be going on. What am I missing?
It's certainly not an e2fsprogs issue.debian-edu-config has already been failing in the past quite often with the same error message as above.
The oldest failing log is from 2025-04-18 22:11:45 UTC https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/ppc64el/d/debian-edu-config/60154832/log.gz Unfortunately older logs have already been garbage collected.polkitd has an autopkgtest which installs the package, include the above creation of the polkitd user and the test runs reliably on ppc64el:
https://ci.debian.net/packages/p/policykit-1/unstable/ppc64el/So maybe some weird interaction is going on by the way the debian-edu-config test bed is setup.
Haven't seen this failure myself before, so sorry if I can't be of more help.
Michael
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