User Replace Validation error

[mira-miracoli]

I am trying to build a rocky9-latest image with the following command:
python build.py rockylinux-9-latest-x86_64 generic workers internal --conda-env /home/mk/miniconda3/envs/vgcn -q --ansible-args="--scp-extra-args=-O"

I tried versions 3.0.1 (which is still in vgcn in the requirements.yml)
and get:

    qemu.rockylinux-9-latest-x86_64: TASK [usegalaxy_eu.handy.os_setup : Replace in passwd file] ********************
    qemu.rockylinux-9-latest-x86_64: fatal: [default]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "failed to validate: rc:2 error:"}

when I update it to use the latest tag (3.1.1), I get this error:

    qemu.rockylinux-9-latest-x86_64: TASK [usegalaxy_eu.handy.os_setup : Replace user in users file.] ***************
    qemu.rockylinux-9-latest-x86_64: failed: [default] (item=['999', '9']) => {"ansible_loop_var": "item", "changed": false, "item": ["999", "9"], "msg": "failed to validate: rc:2 error:"}

[mira-miracoli]

Seems that it is pretty common that some home directories do not exist. I get this error for the above mentioned generic workers internal:

"stdout": "user 'stapunpriv': directory '/var/lib/stapunpriv' does not exist\npwck: no changes"

and multiple directories when I run the pwck command manually on my machine