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falstaff_ch

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Registered: 2013-06-09

Posts: 26

systemd upgrade cannot remove file '/usr/bin/systemd-sysusers'

Running a system upgrade today lead to the following issue:

error: cannot remove file '/usr/bin/systemd-sysusers': Operation not permitted
(1/1) reinstalling systemd                                                           [################################################] 100%
warning: warning given when extracting /usr/bin/systemd-sysusers (Could not unlink)

Indeed it is not possible to delete/move /usr/bin/systemd-sysusers, even as root.

Any idea?

jasonwryan

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Re: systemd upgrade cannot remove file '/usr/bin/systemd-sysusers'

Don't post truncated output: please paste the command and the full output.

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progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

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Re: systemd upgrade cannot remove file '/usr/bin/systemd-sysusers'

Maybe you set the file to immutable?

lsattr -ld /usr/bin
ls -ld /usr/bin
lsattr -l /usr/bin/systemd-sysusers
ls -l /usr/bin/systemd-sysusers

Removing the immutable flag can be done as root with

chattr -i /usr/bin/systemd-sysusers

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falstaff_ch

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Registered: 2013-06-09

Posts: 26

Re: systemd upgrade cannot remove file '/usr/bin/systemd-sysusers'

Hm, the file was indeed immutable:

$ lsattr -l /usr/bin/systemd-sysusers
/usr/bin/systemd-sysusers    Immutable, Extents

I wonder why I did that/or what did that. Thanks for your help!