Subject: Re: 2.6.15-rc3: adduser: unable to lock password file
From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: JaniD++ <djani22@dynamicweb.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 10:11:03 -0500
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On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 14:00 +0100, JaniD++ wrote:

> Here is the strace-s output:     (20KB)
> http://download.netcenter.hu/bughunt/20051203/adduser.log
> 
> This problem is always on on 2.6.15-rc3, and newer on 2.6.14.2

OK... Looks like it is bailing out after the lines

link("/etc/passwd.2522", "/etc/passwd.lock") = 0
stat64("/etc/passwd.2522", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=5, ...}) = 0

I'll bet the stat64 is filing to show that the file now has 2 links.

As a first step, could you please grab the 2 patches

  http://client.linux-nfs.org/Linux-2.6.x/2.6.15-rc4/linux-2.6.15-01-nfs-cache-init.dif
and
  http://client.linux-nfs.org/Linux-2.6.x/2.6.15-rc4/linux-2.6.15-02-fix_cache_consistency.dif

and see if they fix the problem?

Cheers,
  Trond

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