Journalctl Errors Normal?

Bazzite
1

Is it normal (expected) if I do a

journalctl -b --priority=3

to search for boot errors and get quite a few (I’ve stuck them at the bottom of this post).

The vast majority of these errors are “Failed to Resolve Group” and “Unknown Group.” I’m assuming those groups are standard Linux ones that Bazzite doesn’t implement. Then there’s an “Overdrive is enabled” error regarding my GPU. I assume that’s because I’m using LACT and have undervolted my GPU. But, then, there are a couple of “Failed to start systemd-remount-fs.service - Remount Root and Kernel File Systems.” Maybe those have something to do with Bazzite having the OS be read-only? And, finally, there are a couple of “SELinux access check” errors. Maybe an expected result of SELinux checking that everything’s protected?

And, here are the log entries for that journalctl command:

Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-tmpfiles[334]: /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/static-nodes-permissions.conf:12: Failed to resolve group 'audio>
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-tmpfiles[334]: /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/static-nodes-permissions.conf:13: Failed to resolve group 'audio>
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-tmpfiles[334]: /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/static-nodes-permissions.conf:14: Failed to resolve group 'disk'>
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-tmpfiles[334]: /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/static-nodes-permissions.conf:18: Failed to resolve group 'kvm':>
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-tmpfiles[334]: /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/static-nodes-permissions.conf:19: Failed to resolve group 'kvm':>
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-tmpfiles[334]: /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/static-nodes-permissions.conf:20: Failed to resolve group 'kvm':>
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-tmpfiles[429]: /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/systemd.conf:11: Failed to resolve group 'utmp': No such process
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-tmpfiles[429]: /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/var.conf:15: Failed to resolve group 'utmp': No such process
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-tmpfiles[429]: /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/var.conf:16: Failed to resolve group 'utmp': No such process
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-tmpfiles[429]: /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/var.conf:17: Failed to resolve group 'utmp': No such process
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:13 Unknown group 'clock', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:34 Unknown group 'clock', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:40 Unknown group 'tty', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:41 Unknown group 'tty', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:42 Unknown group 'tty', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:43 Unknown group 'tty', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:46 Unknown group 'kmem', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:48 Unknown group 'input', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:51 Unknown group 'video', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:52 Unknown group 'video', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:53 Unknown group 'video', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:54 Unknown group 'video', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:55 Unknown group 'video', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:56 Unknown group 'video', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:58 Unknown group 'render', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:59 Unknown group 'render', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:60 Unknown group 'render', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:62 Unknown group 'sgx', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:63 Unknown group 'sgx', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:68 Unknown group 'audio', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:79 Unknown group 'audio', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:80 Unknown group 'audio', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:81 Unknown group 'video', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:83 Unknown group 'lp', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:84 Unknown group 'lp', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:85 Unknown group 'lp', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:86 Unknown group 'lp', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:87 Unknown group 'lp', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:88 Unknown group 'lp', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:90 Unknown group 'disk', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:98 Unknown group 'disk', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:99 Unknown group 'disk', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:100 Unknown group 'disk', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:101 Unknown group 'disk', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:102 Unknown group 'disk', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:103 Unknown group 'disk', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:104 Unknown group 'disk', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:113 Unknown group 'kvm', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:118 Unknown group 'kvm', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:120 Unknown group 'kvm', ignoring.
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Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-tmpfiles[334]: /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/static-nodes-permissions.conf:12: Failed to resolve group 'audio': No such process
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-tmpfiles[334]: /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/static-nodes-permissions.conf:13: Failed to resolve group 'audio': No such process
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-tmpfiles[334]: /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/static-nodes-permissions.conf:14: Failed to resolve group 'disk': No such process
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-tmpfiles[334]: /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/static-nodes-permissions.conf:18: Failed to resolve group 'kvm': No such process
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-tmpfiles[334]: /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/static-nodes-permissions.conf:19: Failed to resolve group 'kvm': No such process
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-tmpfiles[334]: /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/static-nodes-permissions.conf:20: Failed to resolve group 'kvm': No such process
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-tmpfiles[429]: /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/systemd.conf:11: Failed to resolve group 'utmp': No such process
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-tmpfiles[429]: /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/var.conf:15: Failed to resolve group 'utmp': No such process
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-tmpfiles[429]: /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/var.conf:16: Failed to resolve group 'utmp': No such process
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-tmpfiles[429]: /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/var.conf:17: Failed to resolve group 'utmp': No such process
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:13 Unknown group 'clock', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:34 Unknown group 'clock', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:40 Unknown group 'tty', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:41 Unknown group 'tty', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:42 Unknown group 'tty', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:43 Unknown group 'tty', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:46 Unknown group 'kmem', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:48 Unknown group 'input', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:51 Unknown group 'video', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:52 Unknown group 'video', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:53 Unknown group 'video', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:54 Unknown group 'video', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:55 Unknown group 'video', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:56 Unknown group 'video', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:58 Unknown group 'render', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:59 Unknown group 'render', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:60 Unknown group 'render', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:62 Unknown group 'sgx', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:63 Unknown group 'sgx', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:68 Unknown group 'audio', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:79 Unknown group 'audio', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:80 Unknown group 'audio', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:81 Unknown group 'video', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:83 Unknown group 'lp', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:84 Unknown group 'lp', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:85 Unknown group 'lp', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:86 Unknown group 'lp', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:87 Unknown group 'lp', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:88 Unknown group 'lp', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:90 Unknown group 'disk', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:98 Unknown group 'disk', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:99 Unknown group 'disk', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:100 Unknown group 'disk', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:101 Unknown group 'disk', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:102 Unknown group 'disk', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:103 Unknown group 'disk', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:104 Unknown group 'disk', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:113 Unknown group 'kvm', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:118 Unknown group 'kvm', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:120 Unknown group 'kvm', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:122 Unknown group 'kvm', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:05 bazzite systemd-udevd[481]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-block.rules:16 Unknown group 'disk', ignoring.
Mar 22 07:45:08 bazzite kernel: amdgpu: Overdrive is enabled, please disable it before reporting any bugs unrelated to overdrive.
Mar 22 07:45:10 bazzite systemd[1]: Failed to start systemd-remount-fs.service - Remount Root and Kernel File Systems.
Mar 22 07:45:10 bazzite systemd-remount-fs[800]: /usr/bin/mount for / exited with exit status 32.
Mar 22 07:45:11 bazzite systemd-remount-fs[980]: /usr/bin/mount for / exited with exit status 32.
Mar 22 07:45:11 bazzite systemd[1]: Failed to start systemd-remount-fs.service - Remount Root and Kernel File Systems.
Mar 22 07:45:11 bazzite systemd-remount-fs[1000]: /usr/bin/mount for / exited with exit status 32.
Mar 22 07:45:11 bazzite systemd[1]: Failed to start systemd-remount-fs.service - Remount Root and Kernel File Systems.
Mar 22 07:45:11 bazzite systemd-tmpfiles[1032]: "/home" already exists and is not a directory.
Mar 22 07:45:11 bazzite systemd-tmpfiles[1032]: "/srv" already exists and is not a directory.
Mar 22 07:45:11 bazzite systemd-tmpfiles[1032]: "/root" already exists and is not a directory.
Mar 22 07:45:32 bazzite systemd-logind[1323]: Failed to open '/boot/loader/entries': Remote address changed
Mar 22 07:45:34 bazzite systemd[1]: SELinux access check scon=system_u:system_r:NetworkManager_dispatcher_iscsid_t:s0 tcon=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 tclass=system perm=reload state=enforcing function=bus_unit_method_start_generic path=/etc/systemd/system/iscsi.service cmdline=n/a>
Mar 22 07:45:34 bazzite systemd[1]: SELinux access check scon=system_u:system_r:NetworkManager_dispatcher_iscsid_t:s0 tcon=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 tclass=system perm=reload state=enforcing function=bus_unit_method_start_generic path=/etc/systemd/system/iscsi.service cmdline=n/a>
Mar 22 07:45:44 bazzite org_kde_powerdevil[2665]: [ 2665] busno=6, All features that should not exist detected. Monitor does not indicate unsupported

2

These unknown group errors are very strange. You should find those groups in /usr/lib/group. Please check.

If yes then the question is if someone changed anything in, for instance, /etc/nsswitch.conf

3

Additional idea. Did you boot around the time 7:45h today? If yes, then perhaps the service was started too early… Just a guess

4

On my Aurora system I also found many messages like this after boot

```
systemd-udevd[564]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:68 Unknown group ‘audio’, ignoring.
```

for many groups.

I suspect the reason is that systemd-udevd gets started earlier than nss-user-lookup.target.

Perhaps there is something similar on your system.

5

Every time I submit a bug report (not all that often) and it asks for a journalctl log, I glance through it in the vain hope I’ll understand anything (which I don’t). I’ve been seeing those Failed to Resolve and Unknown Group messages since I started using Bazzite 3 or 4 months ago. Today, I just looked for a way to pull up all the errors to see what else was there. And, yes, that log is for the last boot (which was around 7:45).

I have no /usr/lib/group folder. But, I looked at the first error and saw it referring to:

/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/static-nodes-permissions.conf:12

So, I looked there. The content of that file is:

z /dev/snd/seq 0660 - audio -
z /dev/snd/timer 0660 - audio -
z /dev/loop-control 0660 - disk -
z /dev/net/tun 0666 - - -
z /dev/fuse 0666 - - -
z /dev/vfio/vfio 0666 - - -
z /dev/kvm 0666 - kvm -
z /dev/vhost-net 0666 - kvm -
z /dev/vhost-vsock 0666 - kvm -

Taking the 1st line there, I looked for /dev/sn/seq. It does exist, but it’s 0 bytes. It’s owned by root, so I really don’t want to mess with it trying to read it (since I don’t know what I’m doing). So, it looks like at least the 1st error’s group exists where it should be (at least according to the log).

If it’s a matter of timing, I’d have expected those groups to load later. But, doing a:

journalctl -b --grep static-nodes-permissions

to see if those first groups get loaded later shows nothing. No further attempts to do anything with them. Just the initial failures.