Bug 940565

Summary:	x11-misc/sddm installs sysusers.d file which conflicts with acct-user/sddm
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Mike Gilbert <floppym>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	LxQt maintainers <lxqt>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	kde
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2024-09-30 19:08:42 UTC

Running systemd-sysusers emits this warning:

> % sudo systemd-sysusers --dry-run
> /usr/lib/sysusers.d/sddm.conf:2: Conflict with earlier configuration for user 'sddm' in /usr/lib/sysusers.d/acct-user-sddm.conf:1, ignoring line.

> % equery l sddm
>  * Searching for sddm ...
> [IP-] [  ] x11-misc/sddm-0.21.0_p20240723-r10:0

> % cat /usr/lib/sysusers.d/acct-user-sddm.conf
> u       sddm    219:sddm        A\ user\ for\ x11-misc/sddm     /var/lib/sddm   /sbin/nologin
> m       sddm    video

> % cat /usr/lib/sysusers.d/sddm.conf
> #Type Name ID GECOS                  Home directory Shell
> u     sddm -  "SDDM Greeter Account" /var/lib/sddm   -

It would probably make sense to just delete /usr/lib/sysusers.d/sddm.conf.