Rpm-ostree systems have failed

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I am using fedora cores, and am unable to layer packages once I have installed openvpn.

There is an open GitHub issue at:

But there seems to be no other activity that I can find where this issue is being addressed.

I am completely stuck, and both my silverblue installs and coreos are now completely unusable.

Does anyone have any further information or know what is being done and where to get updates about it?

This is a consequence of moving to systemd-sysusers and I have noticed that the nss-altfiles arrangement still seems to be functioning but reports a whole host of errors, when authselect is run.

Any help or information gratefully accepted

Mtia

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I had a similar problem with ddclient.

ddclient-4.0.0-3.fc42 switched to using sysusers.d but ddclient-4.0.0-1.fc42 worked fine.

So my workaround was to layer a specific version of ddclient (rpm-ostree install ddclient-4.0.0-1.fc42) so that the rest of the packages can be layered successfully.

Maybe you can try if layering a specific openvpn which does not use sysusers.d works for you.

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Thanks for the input. I will give it a try tomorrow, but I am hoping that the issue will be fixed.

Another option to try is to build from source, I guess.