Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932556AbVLBACR (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2005 19:02:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932565AbVLBACR (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2005 19:02:17 -0500 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.130.16]:26287 "EHLO pat.uio.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932556AbVLBACQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2005 19:02:16 -0500 Subject: Re: 2.6.15-rc3: adduser: unable to lock password file From: Trond Myklebust To: JaniD++ Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <016c01c5f6cc$0e28e6d0$0400a8c0@dcccs> References: <016c01c5f6cc$0e28e6d0$0400a8c0@dcccs> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 19:02:01 -0500 Message-Id: <1133481721.9597.37.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UiO-Spam-info: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-5, required 12, autolearn=disabled, UIO_MAIL_IS_INTERNAL -5.00) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 662 Lines: 23 On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 23:47 +0100, JaniD++ wrote: > Hello, list, > > I get this after upgrade from 2.6.14.2 > > [root@dy-xeon-1 etc]# adduser someuser > adduser: unable to lock password file > [root@dy-xeon-1 etc]# > > I use nfsroot! I'm seeing no trouble with locking on 2.6.15-rc3 (with or without the -onolock option). Could you please use 'strace' to get a dump of what adduser is failing on? Cheers, Trond - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/