On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 02:23:38PM +0000, Shawn Weeks wrote: > I’m not exactly sure where this issue should go in GitLab but it looks like > the generic cloud images are creating the netdev group with a GID > 999 which > causes anything that installs network-manager to fail since it expects netdev > to have a GID < 1000. In my case I’m not actually trying to use > network-manager but it’s installed by Gnome, Mate, Cinnamon, etc. Changing > the GID to something like 126 and rebooting fixes the issue but since netdev > is supposed to be a system group it shouldn’t be getting created with a GID > of 1000. I looked through gitlab but could actually figure out where the > netdev group is getting created so it’s possible this is cloud-init itself > doing something wierd.
This should be fixed in the latest images. For details see: - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1038691 - https://salsa.debian.org/cloud-team/debian-cloud-images/-/merge_requests/363/diffs Ross
