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Agent fails to install / blocks any system updates on OSTree systems #200

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@mpweya

The agent fails to install on OSTree systems with the following error message. For systems with the OpenUEM agent already installed this results in a system that cannot be updated at all unless the agent package is removed.

Tested on: Fedora Silverblue 43
Agent Version: 0.11.0

test@machine:~$ rpm-ostree install openuem-agent-0:0.11.0-1
Checking out tree 4e787d9... done
Enabled rpm-md repositories: fedora-cisco-openh264 updates fedora openuem updates-archive
Importing rpm-md... done
rpm-md repo 'fedora-cisco-openh264' (cached); generated: 2025-03-05T10:45:56Z solvables: 6
rpm-md repo 'updates' (cached); generated: 2026-04-25T01:32:11Z solvables: 27896
rpm-md repo 'fedora' (cached); generated: 2025-10-23T03:37:20Z solvables: 77664
rpm-md repo 'openuem' (cached); generated: 2026-03-10T18:06:54Z solvables: 54
rpm-md repo 'updates-archive' (cached); generated: 2026-04-18T02:14:52Z solvables: 46937
Resolving dependencies... done
Will download: 5 packages (18.2 MB)
Downloading from 'updates'... done
Importing packages... done
Checking out packages... done
Running systemd-sysusers... done
Running pre scripts... done
Running post scripts... done
error: While applying overrides for pkg openuem-agent: Could not find user 'openuem-agent' in passwd file

Addition: This issue seems to not exist on agent version 0.10.0.

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