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Reproducible via martchus@openqa:~> sudo salt -C 'G@nodename:backup-vm' -l error --state-output=changes state.apply:

martchus@backup-vm:~> sudo tail -f /var/log/salt/minion
2023-06-23 16:41:14,315 [salt.state       :327 ][ERROR   ][16757] These values could not be changed: {'groups': []}
2023-06-23 16:41:14,812 [salt.state       :327 ][ERROR   ][16757] These values could not be changed: {'groups': []}
2023-06-23 16:41:16,091 [salt.state       :327 ][ERROR   ][16757] These values could not be changed: {'groups': []}
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martchus@backup-vm:~> sudo pwck -r prints the same list of problems as on other hosts.

Fixed by removing a trailing +::: in /etc/group:

Summary for backup.qa.suse.de
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Succeeded: 243 (changed=1)
Failed:      0
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Total states run:     243
Total run time:    28.253 s

It is not the first time I've seen /etc/group broken like this on one of our machines. I'll nevertheless resolve this ticket because I wouldn't know how to find out why /etc/group gets broken. Maybe it is a bug in salt or a package script, though.