Ok guys,
Found the problem to this behaviour...
The Debian::AdduserCommon module (from adduser-3.63) uses "nscd -i
group" to invalidate the group name service cache when a new group is
added. Well, it should.
Unfortunately, it expects a file /var/run/nscd.pid to exist:
my $nscdpid = "/var/run/nscd.pid";
# this function replaces startnscd and stopnscd (closes: #54726)
if(defined($nscd) && -f $nscdpid)
....
system ($nscd, "-i", "group");
This code is broken because nscd's pidfile is called /var/run/nscd, as
least with nscd-2.3.5-13.
So the group invalidation doesn't happen, and so if you add a user with
adduser immediately after adding a group with addgroup, adduser may
fail (and continue to fail when retried) for a small period of time.
Consider using pidof(8) to identify running nscd
processes. This is what the nscd startup script does.
Regards
Marlon Van der Linde
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