Problems with CHOWN while booting

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Kensai · Post by **Kensai** » Mon Sep 22, 2025 1:23 pm

Hi,

I've been having this problem for a bit, but since it seems to affect nothing, I didn't bother posting. I did troubleshoot it with some google searches and some AI assistance, but to no success. Ok, the problem, when I boot right after grub I get:

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chown: invalid group: 'root:root'

I don't know how to get rid of this, some help would be appreciated.

user · Post by **user** » Thu Sep 25, 2025 9:46 am

Wild guess. Using initrd without username to UID translate support.

1) fix missing username to UID translate support at initrd stage
or
2) using UID at initrd scripts

Kensai · Post by **Kensai** » Mon Sep 29, 2025 3:03 pm

I think you are completely right, but haven't found a way to fix it yet. If you have any pointers on what to do specifically, that would help. I am using dracut, and I added some things to the conf file:

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echo 'install_items+="/etc/passwd /etc/group /etc/nsswitch.conf"' > /etc/dracut.conf.d/resolve-users.conf

Supposedly that would help, but no luck.

dracut --force does give me this interesting message

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grep: /var/tmp/dracut.dMMrmtS/initramfs/etc/shadow: No such file or directory

zen_desu · Post by **zen_desu** » Mon Sep 29, 2025 5:14 pm

was it working before or is this a new install?

Kensai · Post by **Kensai** » Tue Sep 30, 2025 2:16 pm

I never saw that error, I think I got it after some system upgrade. I know it is affecting nothing that I can see, but I just really want to understand it. I am using plymouth as a graphical boot. I don't know if that could be the problem.