UID and GID on F30

2019-06-18 Thread Tim via users
Hi, I recently set up Fedora 30 as a new install on a blank SDD. When I went to create my user it got UID 1000, as I expected (since I was the first user). But, not as I expected, it got GID 1001, because something else had already grabbed it: $ cat /etc/group|grep 1000 hugetlbfs:x:1000:openvsw

Re: UID and GID on F30

2019-06-18 Thread Todd Zullinger
Hi, Tim via users wrote: > I recently set up Fedora 30 as a new install on a blank SDD. When I > went to create my user it got UID 1000, as I expected (since I was the > first user). But, not as I expected, it got GID 1001, because > something else had already grabbed it: > > $ cat /etc/group|g

Re: UID and GID on F30

2019-06-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 6/18/19 10:56 PM, Tim via users wrote: > Hi, > > I recently set up Fedora 30 as a new install on a blank SDD. When I > went to create my user it got UID 1000, as I expected (since I was the > first user). But, not as I expected, it got GID 1001, because > something else had already grabbed it:

Re: UID and GID on F30

2019-06-18 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2019-06-18 at 23:31 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > I guess you did "dnf info openvswitch" and "dnf info libhugetlbf"? No, I did a default install of the Mate spin. Then I've installed evolution, gvim, autofs, vlc, youtube-dl, smplayer. # dnf history ID | Command line | Date

Re: UID and GID on F30

2019-06-18 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2019-06-18 at 11:24 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > It looks like this was filed as: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1646774 > > It's not clear whether the maintainer intends to push the > trivial fix to existing branches or not. I think that it > should be fixed in f29 and f30 as wel

Re: UID and GID on F30

2019-06-19 Thread Louis Lagendijk
On Tue, 2019-06-18 at 23:31 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 6/18/19 10:56 PM, Tim via users wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I recently set up Fedora 30 as a new install on a blank SDD. When > > I > > went to create my user it got UID 1000, as I expected (since I was > > the > > first user). But, not as I e

Re: UID and GID on F30

2019-06-19 Thread Ed Greshko
On 6/19/19 5:22 PM, Louis Lagendijk wrote: > > Maybe the bast solution: > - remove the packages > - change the groupid in /etc/group to an unused value < 1000 > - changw you groupid to 1000 > - reinstall the packages > I think, unless the OP knows he needs the packages, he can skip the last step. 

Re: UID and GID on F30

2019-06-19 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2019-06-19 at 11:22 +0200, Louis Lagendijk wrote: > Maybe the bast solution: > - remove the packages > - change the groupid in /etc/group to an unused value < 1000 > - changw you groupid to 1000 > - reinstall the packages What I've done, and so far so good: 1. Remove the only identifia

Re: UID and GID on F30

2019-06-21 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 11:31:46PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 6/18/19 10:56 PM, Tim via users wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I recently set up Fedora 30 as a new install on a blank SDD. When I > > went to create my user it got UID 1000, as I expected (since I was the > > first user). But, not as I exp

Re: UID and GID on F30

2019-06-21 Thread Ed Greshko
On 6/22/19 5:03 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote: >> I guess you did "dnf info openvswitch" and "dnf info libhugetlbf"? >> >> I'm guessing those are what resulted in the reservation of the ID's. > What? Just asking for information as an ordinary user might > cause a change to system files? Doesn't seem like

Re: UID and GID on F30

2019-06-21 Thread Tim via users
Ed Greshko: >>> I guess you did "dnf info openvswitch" and "dnf info libhugetlbf"? >>> >>> I'm guessing those are what resulted in the reservation of the >>> ID's. Jon LaBadie: >> What? Just asking for information as an ordinary user might >> cause a change to system files? Doesn't seem likely.

Re: UID and GID on F30

2019-06-21 Thread Ed Greshko
On 6/22/19 12:16 PM, Tim via users wrote: > But, yes, before posting that I didn't know what they were, I had read > the package info, and it didn't particularly leave me any wiser. > > $ dnf info openvswitch > > Description: Open vSwitch provides standard network bridging functions > and support f