group fuse not created on Debian Jessie

[akcchoi]

Hi all,

It seems that group "fuse" was not created by the fuse's installation script on the default Jessie VM image, but it is done for Wheezy (back-port) image:

In 7.8 Wheezy back-port:

$ sudo apt-get install fuse
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed: 
fuse
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 74.2 kB of archives.After this operation, 179 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates/main fuse amd64 2.9.0-2+deb7u2 [74.2 kB]
Fetched 74.2 kB in 0s (599 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package fuse.
(Reading database ... 20074 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking fuse (from .../fuse_2.9.0-2+deb7u2_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64
/var/tmp/mkinitramfs_lkOQRm/scripts/local-premount/gce-disable-growroot: 7: .: Can't open /scripts/functions
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up fuse (2.9.0-2+deb7u2) ...
Creating fuse group...
Adding group `fuse' (GID 105) ... 
Done.
udev active, skipping device node creation.
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64
/var/tmp/mkinitramfs_YNssRH/scripts/local-premount/gce-disable-growroot: 7: .: Can't open /scripts/functions

In Jessie 8.1:

sudo apt-get install wget fuse
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree 
Reading state information... Done
wget is already the newest version.
The following NEW packages will be installed: 
fuse
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 70.4 kB of archives.After this operation, 112 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
Get:1 http://gce_debian_mirror.storage.googleapis.com/ jessie/main fuse amd642.9.3-15+deb8u1 [70.4 kB]
Fetched 70.4 kB in 0s (538 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package fuse.
(Reading database ... 18095 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../fuse_2.9.3-15+deb8u1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking fuse (2.9.3-15+deb8u1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.0.2-5) ...
Setting up fuse (2.9.3-15+deb8u1) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.120) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-4-amd64
/etc/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-premount/gce-disable-growroot: 7: .: Can't open /scripts/functions

it seems that some triggers are not triggered with Jessie.

fuse version:
wheezy: 2.9.0-2+deb7u2
jesssie: 2.9.3-15+deb8u1

Many thanks,
Andy

[akcchoi]

Seems that fuse group is no longer required in Jessie:
https://wiki.debian.org/SystemGroups

Perhaps, it would be useful to update the documentation?

[jacobsa]

Thanks for the report. I didn't even know a Debian 8 image had been added to GCE. I confirm that fuse doesn't exist after setting up a debian-8 VM, and doesn't need to. Will update the docs.