Control: severity -1 seriousI can reproduce the "Failed to check if group polkitd already exists: Connection refused" error in a bullseye VM that is dist-upgraded to bookworm.
systemd v247 before the upgrade listens on /run/systemd/userdb/io.systemd.DynamicUser
once systemd has been upgraded to v252 and reexecd in postinst, systemd no longer listens on this socket.
So, the minimal reproducer is to install a bullseye VM, enable bookworm in /etc/apt/sources.list and run "apt install systemd"
Afterwards, PID 1 no longer listens on the socket.I assume that something goes wrong during the daemon-reexec causing systemd to reopen the socket.
Any subsequent call to systemd-sysusers then fails.As shown by #1076506 and the duplicates in the debian forum, I'd say this should be fixed via a stable update.
I'm also bumping this to RC. A typescript of the minimal reproducer is attached. Michael
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