With the proposed package, the users and groups are created when doing
upgrade. After restart, there is not any errors now.
$ systemctl status malcontent-webd.service
● malcontent-webd.service - Parental Controls Web Filtering Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/malcontent-webd.service; enabled;
preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Mon 2026-09-07 10:22:38 CST; 6s ago
Invocation: 2a50fd8a10a64f9189f5b030414c287d
Docs: man:malcontent-webd(8)
Main PID: 76876 (malcontent-webd)
Tasks: 5 (limit: 17955)
Memory: 2.5M (peak: 3M)
CPU: 109ms
CGroup: /system.slice/malcontent-webd.service
└─76876 /usr/libexec/malcontent-webd
Sep 07 10:22:38 Curie3-P-SVT1 systemd[1]: Starting malcontent-webd.service -
Parental Controls Web Filtering Daemon...
Sep 07 10:22:38 Curie3-P-SVT1 systemd[1]: Started malcontent-webd.service -
Parental Controls Web Filtering Daemon.
$ apt-cache policy malcontent-gui
malcontent-gui:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 0.14.0-0ubuntu1.1
Version table:
0.14.0-0ubuntu1.2 100
100 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu resolute-proposed/universe amd64
Packages
0.14.0-0ubuntu1.1 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu resolute-updates/universe amd64
Packages
0.14.0-0ubuntu1 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu resolute/universe amd64 Packages
$ sudo apt install malcontent-gui -t resolute-proposed
Upgrading:
gir1.2-malcontent-0 libmalcontent-0-0 libmalcontent-common
libmalcontent-ui-1-1 malcontent-gui
Installing dependencies:
malcontent
Continue? [Y/n]
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu resolute-proposed/main amd64
libmalcontent-common all 0.14.0-0ubuntu1.2 [11.2 kB]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu resolute-proposed/main amd64
libmalcontent-0-0 amd64 0.14.0-0ubuntu1.2 [40.2 kB]
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu resolute-proposed/main amd64
gir1.2-malcontent-0 amd64 0.14.0-0ubuntu1.2 [7,058 B]
Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu resolute-proposed/universe amd64
libmalcontent-ui-1-1 amd64 0.14.0-0ubuntu1.2 [27.2 kB]
Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu resolute-proposed/main amd64 malcontent
amd64 0.14.0-0ubuntu1.2 [107 kB]
Get:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu resolute-proposed/universe amd64
malcontent-gui amd64 0.14.0-0ubuntu1.2 [76.3 kB]
Fetched 269 kB in 1s (185 kB/s)
(Reading database… 303968 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack …/0-libmalcontent-common_0.14.0-0ubuntu1.2_all.deb…
Unpacking libmalcontent-common (0.14.0-0ubuntu1.2) over (0.14.0-0ubuntu1.1)…
Preparing to unpack …/1-libmalcontent-0-0_0.14.0-0ubuntu1.2_amd64.deb…
Unpacking libmalcontent-0-0:amd64 (0.14.0-0ubuntu1.2) over (0.14.0-0ubuntu1.1)…
Preparing to unpack …/2-gir1.2-malcontent-0_0.14.0-0ubuntu1.2_amd64.deb…
Unpacking gir1.2-malcontent-0:amd64 (0.14.0-0ubuntu1.2) over
(0.14.0-0ubuntu1.1)…
Preparing to unpack …/3-libmalcontent-ui-1-1_0.14.0-0ubuntu1.2_amd64.deb…
Unpacking libmalcontent-ui-1-1:amd64 (0.14.0-0ubuntu1.2) over
(0.14.0-0ubuntu1.1)…
Selecting previously unselected package malcontent.
Preparing to unpack …/4-malcontent_0.14.0-0ubuntu1.2_amd64.deb…
Unpacking malcontent (0.14.0-0ubuntu1.2)…
Preparing to unpack …/5-malcontent-gui_0.14.0-0ubuntu1.2_amd64.deb…
Unpacking malcontent-gui (0.14.0-0ubuntu1.2) over (0.14.0-0ubuntu1.1)…
Setting up libmalcontent-common (0.14.0-0ubuntu1.2)…
Setting up libmalcontent-0-0:amd64 (0.14.0-0ubuntu1.2)…
Setting up gir1.2-malcontent-0:amd64 (0.14.0-0ubuntu1.2)…
Setting up malcontent (0.14.0-0ubuntu1.2)…
Creating group 'malcontent-timer-ext-agent' with GID 972.
Creating user 'malcontent-timer-ext-agent' (Malcontent (Parental Controls)
Timer Extension Agent) with UID 972 and GID 972.
Creating group 'malcontent-timerd' with GID 971.
Creating user 'malcontent-timerd' (Malcontent (Parental Controls) Timer Daemon)
with UID 971 and GID 971.
Creating group 'malcontent-webd' with GID 970.
Creating user 'malcontent-webd' (Malcontent (Parental Controls) Web Filtering
Daemon) with UID 970 and GID 970.
Created symlink
'/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/malcontent-timer-extension-agent.service'
→ '/usr/lib/systemd/system/malcontent-timer-extension-agent.service'.
Created symlink
'/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/malcontent-timerd.service' →
'/usr/lib/systemd/system/malcontent-timerd.service'.
Created symlink
'/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/malcontent-webd-update.service' →
'/usr/lib/systemd/system/malcontent-webd-update.service'.
Created symlink
'/etc/systemd/system/timers.target.wants/malcontent-webd-update.timer' →
'/usr/lib/systemd/system/malcontent-webd-update.timer'.
Created symlink
'/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/malcontent-webd.service' →
'/usr/lib/systemd/system/malcontent-webd.service'.
Could not execute systemctl: at /usr/bin/deb-systemd-invoke line 148.
Setting up libmalcontent-ui-1-1:amd64 (0.14.0-0ubuntu1.2)…
Setting up malcontent-gui (0.14.0-0ubuntu1.2)…
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.18-2build1)…
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.38.1-1ubuntu1)…
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.43-2ubuntu2.3)…
Processing triggers for man-db (2.13.1-1build1)…
Processing triggers for dbus (1.16.2-2ubuntu4)…
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.28-1build1)…
** Tags removed: verification-needed-resolute
** Tags added: verification-done-resolute
** Changed in: oem-priority
Status: In Progress => Fix Committed
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