Bug#929462: systemd-journal-remote: systemd-journal-upload user missing

Michael Biebl biebl at debian.org
Fri May 24 07:07:33 BST 2019


Control: tags -1 = moreinfo unreproducible
Control: severity -1 normal

Am 24.05.19 um 02:24 schrieb Paul Emmerich:
> Package: systemd-journal-remote
> Version: 241-3
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> Tags: newcomer
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> we are maintaining a Debian live image that uses systemd-journal-remote to
> send log files to a log collector. The systemd-journal-upload unit fails
> to start on buster:
> 
> May 22 07:23:34 ceph06 systemd[1]: Starting Journal Remote Upload Service...
> May 22 07:23:34 ceph06 systemd[40869]: systemd-journal-upload.service: Failed to determine user credentials: No such process
> May 22 07:23:34 ceph06 systemd[40869]: systemd-journal-upload.service: Failed at step USER spawning /usr/local/bin/update-journal-configuration.sh: No such process
> 
> It tries to run as user systemd-journal-upload which seems to be missing.

I can't reproduce the problem in a buster VM.
systemd-journal-upload.service uses
DynamicUser, so it is not necessary to allocate a static system user.

Do you have libnss-systemd installed? If not, does it help if you
install it?


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