Hi Jonathan, Am Mittwoch, den 13.01.2021, 00:03 +0100 schrieb Jonathan Brielmaier: > Hi Leo, > > your commit a3002104: > system: Assert, that user and group names are unique. > > breaks `guix system reconfigure` for me and other people (at least > two > in IRC). > > $ guix system reconfigure config.scm > guix system: error: the following groups appear more than once: lp > > $ sudo grep lp /etc/group > lp:x:989: > > lpadmin:x:975: > > $ sudo grep lp /etc/passwd > lp:!:18467:::::: It would seem you have two or more services adding an lp group then. Or one service and a manually defined one.
> The same happend on my server with the `nginx` group. Same problem here; you're probably adding an nginx group twice in some way. This is especially concerning, given that it's groups twice – for some reason nothing is adding additional users or else that check would have been triggered first. > I reverted it for the mean time, as I find it pretty grave... I would have preferred, if you could instead have demoted it to a warning. I understand, that stuff suddenly breaking can be frustrating, but I doubt the configurations you're using are fine. > ~Jonathan Regards, Leo