Description:

The policykit package insists on creating the "policykit" group with gid 102, however in the default Arch config the user created groups start at gid 100. This means that it is enough to have only two groups already created before installing policykit, and gid 102 will be taken.

If policykit must have a reserved gid then it should be below 100, in the system group range.

Additional info:

/etc/login.defs: USERGROUPS_ENAB no # probably not relevant, but different than default

Repository : extra
Name : policykit
Version : 0.9-9
URL : http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/PolicyKit/
Licenses : custom
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : dbus-glib>=0.80 expat>=2.0.1 pam
Optional Deps : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None


Steps to reproduce:

# groupadd first
# groupadd second
# pacman -S policykit
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (1): policykit-0.9-9

Total Download Size: 0.44 MB
Total Installed Size: 1.89 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
:: Retrieving packages from extra...
policykit-0.9-9-i686 450.1K 92.8K/s 00:00:05 [###########################################] 100%
checking package integrity...
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [###########################################] 100%
(1/1) installing policykit [###########################################] 100%
groupadd: GID '102' already exists
useradd: group 'policykit' does not exist
chgrp: invalid group: `policykit'
chown: invalid user: `policykit'
chown: invalid user: `policykit:policykit'
chown: invalid user: `policykit'
chgrp: invalid group: `policykit'
chgrp: invalid group: `policykit'
chgrp: invalid group: `policykit'
chgrp: invalid group: `policykit'
chgrp: invalid group: `policykit'