Xpra: Ticket #1093: tmpfiles.d/xpra.conf references nonexistant group

On Debian jessie, systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service and systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service fail because /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/xpra.conf references the group xpra, which does not exist:

systemd-tmpfiles[842]: [/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/xpra.conf:3] Unknown group 'xpra'.

I believe the package should create the group at install time.

Wed, 20 Jan 2016 22:12:04 GMT - Antoine Martin: owner changed

owner changed from Antoine Martin to tribut

r11696 should do what you want, please try the beta packages and close this ticket if that works for you.

Thu, 21 Jan 2016 10:17:26 GMT - tribut: status changed; resolution set

status changed from new to closed
resolution set to fixed

Thanks, that does it.

However, a slightly cleaner way to check for group existence would be

if ! getent group $SERVER_GROUP >/dev/null; then

Thu, 21 Jan 2016 19:45:03 GMT - Antoine Martin:

I've backported this change to v0.16.x in r11706 and will be included in 0.16.1

r11707 uses the syntax from comment:2 (trunk only).

Sat, 23 Jan 2021 05:14:47 GMT - migration script:

this ticket has been moved to: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/1093