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Description of problem:

rtkit rpm tries to create user/group rtkit with static uid/gid 172. This fails if another package was installed previously that got assigned this uid. 

This results in GNOME not logging in at all (and a subsequent message that something went wrong), and error messages like 

 > dbus-daemon[756]: Unknown username "rtkit" in message bus configuration file


If I manually change the uid/gid of the conflicting user (unbound in my case) and reinstall rtkit, everything works as expected. 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

0.11-10.el7


How reproducible:

Happens for every workstation build in my environment. 


Actual results:

user/group rtkit are not created, rtkit doesn't work. 

Expected results:

user rtkit gets assigned a *free*, not a static uid/gid and uses this. 

Additional info:

See the %pre section in the spec file for the rtkit rpm: 
https://git.centos.org/blob/rpms!rtkit/88c2c1e7a968cf0e62c6ad474e1915dccc7b229a/SPECS!rtkit.spec

(In reply to weimann from comment #0)
> Expected results:
> 
> user rtkit gets assigned a *free*, not a static uid/gid and uses this. 
> 

This is actually expected. rtkit has static uid/gid reservation (see /usr/share/doc/setup-2.8.71/uidgid). 

Here in %pre from unbound-libs that create unbound user,

getent group unbound >/dev/null || groupadd -r unbound
getent passwd unbound >/dev/null || \
useradd -r -g unbound -d /etc/unbound -s /sbin/nologin \
-c "Unbound DNS resolver" unbound

Above seems to be correct. Script creates system user and group that should get dynamically allocated uid/gid from range SYS_UID_MIN-SYS_UID_MAX.

$ egrep 'SYS_UID_(MIN|MAX)' /etc/login.defs 
SYS_UID_MIN               201
SYS_UID_MAX               999

I don't understand how is it possible that on your system unbound user has UID that is smaller than 201.