[Jonathan]

A member of our Discord server mentioned this error was showing up during Nginx installation along with a similar one for MySQL package

chown: invalid group: 'mysql:adm' error on RackNerd

[Larry]

Interestingly this error has been popping up the last few months:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1445638/chown-invalid-group-rootadm-problem-when-installing-apache2

Even on WordOps too:

https://community.wordops.net/d/1541-chown-invalid-group-rootadm

Nobody mentions the cloud providers, but I’m guessing there might be a few specific providers where this error is happening.

[Juan]

I’m fairly certain this is caused by certain cloud providers like RackNerd having poorly configured Ubuntu images/etc during provisioning. The adm group is special for Ubuntu and the root user should already be in that group afaik.

So pretty much I think you need to ask your provider to fix their ISO

[Thomas]

hmmmm….

[Steven]

the question is does this happen anywhere else besides RackNerd

[Kathryn]

Racknerd had some other ISO problems too. Just not very good ISOs they need to be improved. Before they didn’t even install rsync by default which is strange

https://github.com/littlebizzy/slickstack/issues/77

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