Interesting, here is a trace of all calls around that time:

19:48:25 88.327  which            325940  325939    0 /usr/bin/which deluser
19:48:25 88.330  deluser          325941  325939    0 /usr/sbin/deluser --quiet 
freerad shadow
19:48:25 88.402  logger           325942  325941    0 /bin/logger --id=2378 
--tag=deluser --priority=user.info  -- Removing user `freerad' from group 
`shadow' ...
19:48:25 88.406  gpasswd          325943  325941    0 /usr/bin/gpasswd -M  
shadow
19:48:25 88.432  deluser          325949  325939    0 /usr/sbin/deluser --quiet 
freerad
19:48:25 88.498  logger           325950  325949    0 /bin/logger --id=2386 
--tag=deluser --priority=user.info  -- Removing crontab ...
19:48:25 88.503  crontab          325951  325949    0 /usr/bin/crontab -u 
freerad -l
19:48:25 88.505  logger           325952  325949    0 /bin/logger --id=2386 
--tag=deluser --priority=user.info  -- Removing user `freerad' ...
19:48:25 88.508  userdel          325953  325949    0 /usr/sbin/userdel freerad
19:48:25 88.564  which            325960  325939    0 /usr/bin/which delgroup
19:48:25 88.565  delgroup         325961  325939    0 /usr/sbin/delgroup 
--quiet freerad
19:48:25 88.632  logger           325962  325961    0 /bin/logger --id=2398 
--tag=delgroup --priority=user.warning  -- The group `freerad' does not exist.

What happens is that userdel also deletes the freerad group, because
that's the primary group of the freerad user.

root@n:~# getent passwd freerad
freerad:x:108:109::/etc/freeradius:/usr/sbin/nologin

root@n:~# getent group freerad
freerad:x:109:


This is log noise: annoying, but harmless. Not worth an update for noble on its 
own, but perhaps something to address for questing.

** Changed in: freeradius (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: freeradius (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

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