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@Grimler91 Grimler91 commented Jan 22, 2026

I created the plugdev group, and expected the default rule to work. I was not sure how to debug it, but learnt about the very useful udevadm test command, with which it was clear as day that simply creating a plugdev group would not work on my system:

$ udevadm test /dev/sg2
[ ... ]
Reading rules file: /etc/udev/rules.d/99-usbsdmux.rules
varlink: Setting state idle-client
/run/systemd/userdb/io.systemd.Multiplexer: Sending message: {"method":"io.systemd.UserDatabase.GetGroupRecord","parameters":{"groupName":"plugdev","gidMax":65533,"service":"io.systemd.Multiplexer"}}
/run/systemd/userdb/io.systemd.Multiplexer: Changing state idle-client → awaiting-reply
/run/systemd/userdb/io.systemd.Multiplexer: Received message: {"parameters":{"record":{"groupName":"plugdev","gid":1002,"members":["foobar"],"privileged":{"hashedPassword":["!"]},"status":{"7abeef6a2a394008bb35f4ea21607bca":{"service":"io.systemd.NameServiceSwitch"}}},"incomplete":true}}
/run/systemd/userdb/io.systemd.Multiplexer: Changing state awaiting-reply → processing-reply
/run/systemd/userdb/io.systemd.Multiplexer: Changing state processing-reply → idle-client
/etc/udev/rules.d/99-usbsdmux.rules:6 Failed to resolve group 'plugdev', ignoring: Not a system group
[ ... ]

I had to change so that it uses group "disk" instead. Add hint about the udevadm test command to the README to help others facing similar issues.

I created the plugdev group, and expected the default rule to
work. I was not sure how to debug it, but learnt about the very useful
udevadm test command, with which it was clear as day that simply
creating a plugdev group would not work on my system:

```
$ udevadm test /dev/sg2
[ ... ]
Reading rules file: /etc/udev/rules.d/99-usbsdmux.rules
varlink: Setting state idle-client
/run/systemd/userdb/io.systemd.Multiplexer: Sending message: {"method":"io.systemd.UserDatabase.GetGroupRecord","parameters":{"groupName":"plugdev","gidMax":65533,"service":"io.systemd.Multiplexer"}}
/run/systemd/userdb/io.systemd.Multiplexer: Changing state idle-client → awaiting-reply
/run/systemd/userdb/io.systemd.Multiplexer: Received message: {"parameters":{"record":{"groupName":"plugdev","gid":1002,"members":["foobar"],"privileged":{"hashedPassword":["!"]},"status":{"7abeef6a2a394008bb35f4ea21607bca":{"service":"io.systemd.NameServiceSwitch"}}},"incomplete":true}}
/run/systemd/userdb/io.systemd.Multiplexer: Changing state awaiting-reply → processing-reply
/run/systemd/userdb/io.systemd.Multiplexer: Changing state processing-reply → idle-client
/etc/udev/rules.d/99-usbsdmux.rules:6 Failed to resolve group
'plugdev', ignoring: Not a system group
[ ... ]
```

I had to change so that it uses group "disk" instead. Add hint about
the udevadm test command to the README to help others facing similar
issues.

Signed-off-by: Henrik Grimler <henrik@grimler.se>
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