Bug#1070119: gnome-remote-desktop: missing gnome-remote-desktop user setup in salsa upcoming 46 version

[Alban Browaeys]

Package: gnome-remote-desktop
Version: 46.1-1
Severity: normal

I believe the bug is import as it prevents opening a new desktop session
(but it still works when connection to an existing session).

The issue seems to be that the user gnome-remote-desktop is not existing
thus the system wide systemd gnome-remote-desktop.service fails to
start:
journalctl -b -u gnome-remote-desktop.service
avril 30 15:47:42 hermes systemd[1]: Starting gnome-remote-desktop.service - GNOME Remote Desktop...
avril 30 15:47:42 hermes (p-daemon)[855818]: gnome-remote-desktop.service: Failed to determine user credentials: No such process
avril 30 15:47:42 hermes systemd[1]: gnome-remote-desktop.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=217/USER
avril 30 15:47:42 hermes systemd[1]: gnome-remote-desktop.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
avril 30 15:47:42 hermes systemd[1]: Failed to start gnome-remote-desktop.service - GNOME Remote Desktop.


Also there is an error message about being unable to create the
gnoem-remote-desktop home /var/lib/gnome-remote-desktop and
/etc/gnome-remote-desktop as user and group gnome-remote-desktop:

sudo LC_ALL=C dpkg -i gnome-remote-desktop_46.1-1_amd64.deb
(Reading database ... 728947 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack gnome-remote-desktop_46.1-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking gnome-remote-desktop (46.1-1) over (46.1-1) ...
Setting up gnome-remote-desktop (46.1-1) ...
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/gnome-remote-desktop-tmpfiles.conf:2: Failed to resolve user 'gnome-remote-desktop': No such process
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/gnome-remote-desktop-tmpfiles.conf:3: Failed to resolve user 'gnome-remote-desktop': No such process
Could not execute systemctl:  at /usr/bin/deb-systemd-invoke line 148.
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1.1+b2) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.27-2) ...
Processing triggers for mailcap (3.70+nmu1) ...
Processing triggers for dbus (1.14.10-4+b1) ...
Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0t64:i386 (2.80.0-6) ...
Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0t64:amd64 (2.80.0-6) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.12.1-1) ...


/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/gnome-remote-desktop-tmpfiles.conf
# tmpfiles.d file to ensure the existence of the home directory for gnome-remote-desktop user
d /var/lib/gnome-remote-desktop 0700 gnome-remote-desktop gnome-remote-desktop
d /etc/gnome-remote-desktop 0755 gnome-remote-desktop gnome-remote-desktop

indeed I have no gnome-remote-desktop user:
$ getent passwd|grep gnome


I found no issue tracker on the salsa project for gnome-remote-desktop
so opened the issue here.

Cheers
Alban

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'oldstable-debug'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.9.0-rc5+ (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gnome-remote-desktop depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.40.0-4+b2
ii  fuse3                                        3.14.0-5
ii  init-system-helpers                          1.66
ii  libc6                                        2.37-19
ii  libcairo2                                    1.18.0-3+b1
ii  libei1                                       1.2.1-1
ii  libepoxy0                                    1.5.10-1+b2
ii  libfreerdp-server3-3                         3.5.1+dfsg1-1
ii  libfreerdp3-3                                3.5.1+dfsg1-1
ii  libfuse3-3                                   3.14.0-5
ii  libglib2.0-0t64                              2.80.0-6
ii  libmutter-14-0                               46.1-1
ii  libnotify4                                   0.8.3-1+b1
ii  libopus0                                     1.4-1+b1
ii  libpipewire-0.3-0t64                         1.0.5-1+b3
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0                        124-2
ii  libsecret-1-0                                0.21.4-1+b1
ii  libsystemd0                                  255.5-1
ii  libtss2-esys-3.0.2-0t64                      4.0.1-7.2
ii  libtss2-mu-4.0.1-0t64                        4.0.1-7.2
ii  libtss2-rc0t64                               4.0.1-7.2
ii  libtss2-tctildr0t64                          4.0.1-7.2
ii  libwinpr3-3                                  3.5.1+dfsg1-1
ii  libxkbcommon0                                1.6.0-1+b1
ii  pipewire                                     1.0.5-1+b3
ii  wireplumber                                  0.4.17-1+b2

gnome-remote-desktop recommends no packages.

gnome-remote-desktop suggests no packages.

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