Hi Nur,
that is odd the handling is as following.
In the past there was a group libvirtd - new packaging in Debian and
Ubuntu renamed that to libvirt but the install handles that.
In case of a new install you would have those groups for libvirt:
libvirt:x:132:paelzer
libvirt-qemu:x:64055:libvirt-qemu
But if you are on an upgrade form an older version to properly work with old
filed created under the old user you'd get:
libvirtd:x:132:paelzer
libvirt:x:132:paelzer
libvirt-qemu:x:64055:libvirt-qemu
The GID is the same, and therefore both names are essentially the same
group.
The snippet for that is in libvirt-daemon-system.postinst and I don't see yet
how that would "remove" the libvirtd group.
if ! getent group libvirt >/dev/null; then
if getent group libvirtd >/dev/null; then
gid=`getent group libvirtd | getent group libvirtd | cut -d: -f3`
groupadd --system --non-unique --gid "$gid" libvirt
else
addgroup --quiet --system libvirt
fi
fi
This is this way since yakkety (16.10) and so far was not an issue.
So the behavior should be:
- new installs since >=Yakkety, you have just group "libvirt"
- upgrade <=Xenial have libvirtd, and you get libvirtd AND libvirt on the same
GID
Nur, could you please outline:
- what exact the error was that made your system need the libvirtd group?
- a scenario how you'd ever have had a libvirtd group given that you Started
with 17.04 after the changes I referred to?
If this is a 3rd party automation/script you'd have to adapt to the new
group name for new installs. As mentioned upgrades will be handled - but
all of this is true since >=16.10.
Waiting for your reply ...
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