NetworkManager-openvpn defines the same user nm-openvpn via installing two files in sysusers.d

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My “google foo” has not been with me on this. I’ve seen this warning for the last few weeks, and now that I’ve dived into it, I figured others would have seen it too - but I cannot find it. So perhaps I’m over-interpreting this (see below).

When I do a “dnf upgrade” I get the following error(s) :

>>> Finished %triggerin scriptlet: systemd-0:258.3-2.fc43.x86_64                                                                                     
>>> Scriptlet output:                                                                                                                                
>>> /usr/lib/sysusers.d/nm-openvpn-sysusers.conf:1: Conflict with earlier configuration for user 'nm-openvpn' in /usr/lib/sysusers.d/networkmanager-o

Two files in /usr/lib/sysusers.d define the nm-openvpn user:

# grep nm-openvpn /usr/lib/sysusers.d/*
/usr/lib/sysusers.d/networkmanager-openvpn.conf:u nm-openvpn - 'Default user for running openvpn spawned by NetworkManager' - -
/usr/lib/sysusers.d/nm-openvpn-sysusers.conf:u! nm-openvpn - "NetworkManager OpenVPN" /var/lib/openvpn/chroot

Both files are created by NetworkManager-openvpn

# rpm -ql NetworkManager-openvpn | grep sysusers
/usr/lib/sysusers.d/networkmanager-openvpn.conf
/usr/lib/sysusers.d/nm-openvpn-sysusers.conf

I post here because I think there may be an issue with this dupilcate as the nm-openvpn-sysusers includes a reference to chroot (/var/lib/openvpn/chroot) and the other does not. So wouldn’t it be random which definition is used, and hence the warning during the upgrade?

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Systemd: update triggers scriptlet conflict
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This sounds like bug and the best place to bring it to developers attentions is the Fedora bug tracker How to file a bug :: Fedora Docs

It is likely that someone else has reported this. You could search the bug database and see if you can find an existing bug.

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For anyone else who lands here, after encountering this problem.. the relevant issue link seems to be:

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