Bug#1133069: systemd-standalone-sysusers: Failed to read 'basic.conf': No such file or directory

[Imran Hussain]

Hello,

I just hit this with Debian testing in a WSL1 container (a bit of an odd 
combo I know).

http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20260518T000000Z and
Image Digest: 
docker.io/library/debian at sha256:942aae6c16e617a949763462ec3b6b5d65e60d90e4cae762bc1bce0522d26fa2


For my workaround installing `opensysusers` was the way to go and 
manually doing `groupadd -r _ssh` to get things working.


Logs as follows:

> Selecting previously unselected package systemd-standalone-sysusers.
> (Reading database ... 7967 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to unpack .../systemd-standalone-sysusers_260.1-1_amd64.deb 
> ...
> Unpacking systemd-standalone-sysusers (260.1-1) ...
> Setting up systemd-standalone-sysusers (260.1-1) ...
> Failed to read 'basic.conf': No such file or directory
> dpkg: error processing package systemd-standalone-sysusers 
> (--configure):
>  old systemd-standalone-sysusers package postinst maintainer script 
> subprocess failed with exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  systemd-standalone-sysusers
> Error: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> $ cat /usr/lib/sysusers.d/basic.conf
> # generated from /usr/share/base-passwd/{passwd,group}.master
> <expected files contents>


Thanks,
Imran