Hello, I had the brilliant idea couple of weeks ago to merge the /etc/{shadow,group,passwd} . I know now that I shouldn't be merging those and ignore the pacnew files. Now i'd like to fix these. The status report from systemd is: ~# systemctl status -l shadow shadow.service - Verify integrity of password and group files Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/shadow.service; static) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2014-08-20 08:17:19 BST; 5min ago Process: 613 ExecStart=/usr/bin/pwck -r (code=exited, status=2) Main PID: 613 (code=exited, status=2) Aug 20 08:17:19 tiamat pwck[613]: user 'uuidd': no group 68 Aug 20 08:17:19 tiamat pwck[613]: pwck: no changes Aug 20 08:17:19 tiamat systemd[1]: shadow.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT Aug 20 08:17:19 tiamat systemd[1]: Failed to start Verify integrity of password and group files. Aug 20 08:17:19 tiamat systemd[1]: Unit shadow.service entered failed state. Further info ~# cat /etc/shadow | grep uuidd uuidd:x:14871:::::: ~# cat /etc/group | grep uuidd uuidd:x:997: ~# cat /etc/passwd | grep uuidd uuidd:x:68:68:uuidd:/:/sbin/nologin ~# /usr/bin/pwck -r user 'uuidd': no group 68 pwck: no changes What should I be changing to fix this? If I change the gid from 997 to 68 would this fix it? Would it be other implications? Thanks for the input Leonidas --