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"Verify integrity of password and group files" service failed

Open Sunspark-007 opened this issue 6 months ago • 0 comments

Your system information

  • Steam client version: 1750380802
  • SteamOS version: 3.6.24
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: Yes
  • Opted into SteamOS beta?: No
  • Have you checked for updates in Settings > System?: Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Ideally, the services list should not have any failed services in it.

The "Verify integrity of password and group files" service is failed and has this in the log:

shadow.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
shadow.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Started Verify integrity of password and group files.
shadow.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
shadow.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Boot system as normally.
  2. Look at the log.

Sunspark-007 avatar Jun 20 '25 16:06 Sunspark-007