Something's fishy with the sysusers hookup in RPM. I installed a fresh fedora 36 the other day, on my laptop. And the systemd-timesync user never got created. The boot-time service systemd-sysusers.service was conditioned out because of its ConditionNeedsUpdate=/etc logic. It requires that /usr/ is touched once on each update, but that didn't take place (it used to happen in the scriptlets once upon a time, but maybe that got lost? or wasn't replicated when systemd.rpm got split?) And apparently systemd-sysusers wasn't invoked by the scriptlets directly either, which doesn't look right. Normally, one of the two ways how systemd-sysusers is run should have create the users for me, but neither did. A manual invocation then fixed things for me. But nonetheless there are probably two things to fix here...
Hmm, do you have any reference for this? I *do* remember that we talked about this in the past, but I can't find any evidence of /usr being touched. $ for i in $(git log --pretty='format:%H'); do git show "$i:systemd.spec"; done| rg touch | rg -v '^Patch|buildroot|^-' | sort -u fatal: path 'systemd.spec' exists on disk, but not in '0d9e15b5c19d9b9b8843c69f67f6a93d90fc6753' touch /etc/systemd/dont-synthesize-nobody touch %{_localstatedir}/lib/rpm-state/systemd/needs-reload (I filtered out patches, anything about %buildroot, and changelog entries. I assume that touch would be the command do touch files.) https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/94e75a5409 does this in the upstream installation procedure, but that doesn't do anything for the rpm.
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/23404
FEDORA-2022-8ac4104a02 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 35. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-8ac4104a02
FEDORA-2022-8ac4104a02 has been pushed to the Fedora 35 testing repository. Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command: `sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2022-8ac4104a02` You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-8ac4104a02 See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
FEDORA-2022-8ac4104a02 has been pushed to the Fedora 35 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.