'eos-reboot-required.service' Failure

Hey, So after updating ‘pacman -Syu’ I started getting this problem.
this is the result of ‘systemctl status eos-reboot-required.service’

klein@Endeavour ~$ systemctl status eos-reboot-required.service
× eos-reboot-required.service - Notify about reboot on special conditions.
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/eos-reboot-required.service; disabled; preset: disabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2023-09-17 10:57:49 +03; 1h 39min ago
TriggeredBy: ○ eos-reboot-required.timer
    Process: 628 ExecStart=/usr/bin/eos-reboot-required3 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   Main PID: 628 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
        CPU: 36ms

Sep 17 10:57:47 Endeavour systemd[1]: Starting Notify about reboot on special conditions....
Sep 17 10:57:49 Endeavour eos-reboot-required3[689]: /usr/bin/id: ‘’: no such user
Sep 17 10:57:49 Endeavour eos-reboot-required3[690]: su: user  does not exist or the user entry does no>
Sep 17 10:57:49 Endeavour systemd[1]: eos-reboot-required.service: Main process exited, code=exited, st>
Sep 17 10:57:49 Endeavour systemd[1]: eos-reboot-required.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Sep 17 10:57:49 Endeavour systemd[1]: Failed to start Notify about reboot on special conditions..
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× eos-reboot-required.service - Notify about reboot on special conditions.
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/eos-reboot-required.service; disabled; preset: disabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2023-09-17 10:57:49 +03; 1h 39min ago
TriggeredBy: ○ eos-reboot-required.timer
    Process: 628 ExecStart=/usr/bin/eos-reboot-required3 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   Main PID: 628 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
        CPU: 36ms

Sep 17 10:57:47 Endeavour systemd[1]: Starting Notify about reboot on special conditions....
Sep 17 10:57:49 Endeavour eos-reboot-required3[689]: /usr/bin/id: ‘’: no such user
Sep 17 10:57:49 Endeavour eos-reboot-required3[690]: su: user  does not exist or the user entry does not contain all the required fields
Sep 17 10:57:49 Endeavour systemd[1]: eos-reboot-required.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Sep 17 10:57:49 Endeavour systemd[1]: eos-reboot-required.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Sep 17 10:57:49 Endeavour systemd[1]: Failed to start Notify about reboot on special conditions..

Hi @klein and welcome to the forum. Have a look through this post Eos-reboot-required.service fails to start after update

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