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Description of problem: The gnome-initial-setup package ships a tmpfiles.d configuration that references a user "gnome-initial-setup", but the corresponding sysusers.d configuration only creates a group, not a user. This causes systemd-tmpfiles to fail with: "Failed to resolve user gnome-initial-setup: Unknown user" during systemd reinstall/upgrade or any tmpfiles --create run. Version-Release number of selected component: gnome-initial-setup-51~alpha-2.fc45.aarch64 How reproducible: Always (100%) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Fedora 45 Workstation (Rawhide) 2. Run: dnf5 reinstall systemd 3. Or run: systemd-tmpfiles --create /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/gnome-initial-setup.conf 4. Observe error in output Actual Results: Error: /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/gnome-initial-setup.conf:1: Failed to resolve user gnome-initial-setup: Unknown user Expected Results: The tmpfiles.d configuration should succeed. The sysusers.d/gnome-initial-setup.conf should create both the group AND the user, or the tmpfiles.d configuration should use a user that exists (e.g. root). Additional info: - Root Cause: sysusers.d/gnome-initial-setup.conf contains only: "g gnome-initial-setup -" (creates group only). But tmpfiles.d/gnome-initial-setup.conf contains: "d /var/lib/gnome-initial-setup 0755 gnome-initial-setup gnome-initial-setup -" which requires both user and group to exist. - Suggested Fix: Add a user line to /usr/lib/sysusers.d/gnome-initial-setup.conf: "u gnome-initial-setup - GNOME Initial Setup /var/lib/gnome-initial-setup" before the group line. - OS: Fedora Linux 45 (Workstation Edition Prerelease) - Kernel: 7.2.0-0.rc6.48.fc45.aarch64 - Architecture: aarch64 (Cortex-A72) - systemd: systemd-261.2-1.fc45.aarch64
Complete! root@fedora:~# systemd-tmpfiles --create /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/gnome-initial-setup.conf /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/gnome-initial-setup.conf:1: Failed to resolve user 'gnome-initial-setup': Unknown user root@fedora:~# systemd-tmpfiles --create /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/gnome-initial-setup.conf /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/gnome-initial-setup.conf:1: Failed to resolve user 'gnome-initial-setup': Unknown user
Confirming this is still reproducible on gnome-initial-setup-51~beta-1.fc45 with the Fedora-Workstation-Live F45 ISO. Additionally, the missing user has a side effect beyond the tmpfiles warning: during the live ISO boot, the gnome-initial-setup session runs under a dynamically allocated UID (60578 in my case). When that session is shut down, gnome-session-service fails to stop within the systemd timeout, triggering TimeoutStopFailureMode=abort (from Fedora's 10-timeout-abort.conf drop-in). This results in a SIGABRT and a coredump: coredumpctl: PID: 1582 (gnome-session-s) UID: 60578 GID: 970 (gnome-initial-setup) Signal: 6 (ABRT) si_code: SI_USER Command Line: /usr/libexec/gnome-session-service --session=gnome-initial-setup Package: gnome-session/51~beta-1.fc45 So the missing user causes not just a tmpfiles error on every boot, but also a coredump on the live ISO.
FEDORA-2026-94e4327d35 (gnome-initial-setup-51~beta-2.fc45) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 45. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-94e4327d35
FEDORA-2026-94e4327d35 has been pushed to the Fedora 45 testing repository. Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command: `sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2026-94e4327d35` You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-94e4327d35 See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
FEDORA-2026-494d8c11bd has been pushed to the Fedora 45 testing repository. Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command: `sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2026-494d8c11bd` You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-494d8c11bd See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
FEDORA-2026-494d8c11bd (at-spi2-core-2.61.90-1.fc45, dconf-51~rc-1.fc45, and 42 more) has been pushed to the Fedora 45 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.