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eschwartz

Fellow

Registered: 2014-08-08

Posts: 4,097

Re: (SOLVED) Pacman unable to create system users/temporary files

Getting 5c2be0580af9c04347882704d1e54a81 as the checksum for the download.
Edit:
Hopefully does not matter as I can reproduce the issue locally.
Edit2:
@betrunkenaffe what does `grpck -r` produce?

The checksum matches if you use dos2unix to change the CRLF to LF, and add a missing linebreak from the end of the file.

Pastebin.com sucks and modifies your files after you upload them. Don't use pastebin.com -- literally any pastebin service *ever*, is a better idea.

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betrunkenaffe

Member

Registered: 2012-03-15

Posts: 26

Re: (SOLVED) Pacman unable to create system users/temporary files

on laptop it complained that my user id was missing from gshadow but in a variety of groups. I corrected with usermod so now my user is in all in both (was a little lazy when installing) and now show no errors (service still won't start).

on desktop, no errors.

I had checked this one due to some previous troubleshooting suggestions I found online.

loqs

Member

Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 18,053

Re: (SOLVED) Pacman unable to create system users/temporary files

sys:x:3:bin:john

should be

sys:x:3:bin,john

etc.

betrunkenaffe

Member

Registered: 2012-03-15

Posts: 26

Re: (SOLVED) Pacman unable to create system users/temporary files

sys:x:3:bin:john

should be

sys:x:3:bin,john

etc.

I'm certain that fixed it, I just checked on desktop and found

sys:x:3:bin:

Deleted the erroneous : and boom, sysusers starts. I don't know when that appeared but it had to be during an update based on the service logs.

I'll try it on my laptop later and if that fixes it as well then I'll mark as solved if it is.

betrunkenaffe

Member

Registered: 2012-03-15

Posts: 26

Re: (SOLVED) Pacman unable to create system users/temporary files

I just checked the pastebin, it was bin,john but I'm happy that led to a resolution on desktop. Sadly, even after correcting all the other ones that were wrong, it is still giving permission errors on laptop, new /etc/group - https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/TGtR6R5z2p/

md5sum /etc/group
e6b3ed935863beccf6a769ed36c30510  /etc/group

betrunkenaffe

Member

Registered: 2012-03-15

Posts: 26

Re: (SOLVED) Pacman unable to create system users/temporary files

Scratch all that. After update and reboot, laptop now has it working as well.

Thank you so much guys for all your assistance.

Marking as solved.