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  1. Noble (24.04)
  2. Bug #2063200
  3. Comment #0

Comment 0 for bug 2063200

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Valentin David (valentin.david) wrote :

On Ubuntu Core 24 calling the command line

useradd --extrausers --groups somegroup somenewuser

... fails with:

useradd: cannot lock /etc/group; try again later.

It worked on 22.04. /etc is not writable. It also fails if somegroup is a group in extrausers.