i'm using ubuntu12.10 and i had the same bug that affects a lot of users (can't
install or update any paquet that uses addgroup, adduser)
i tried "sudo rm /etc/{passwd,group,shadow}.lock" =>the same bug
then "fuser /etc/group" =>nothing
then "fuser /etc/passwd" => there was "cupsd" and "colord-sa
I encountered this problem after a Guest session crashed on Xubuntu
12.04 (Precise Pangolin) amd64/x86_64. The crash was probably due to a
fglrx bug but /etc/group.lock kept users-admin and adduser from adding
any new users.
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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
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Status: New => Confirmed
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Title:
Sys
Check with 'mount' that / isn't mounted read-only. The best option is
probably to set a root password by running 'passwd' as root user in
recovery mode, and then to reboot in normal mode, log in as root, and
add your user to the sudoers group.
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Long time no see answers to this problem. I have it in a newer
distribution:
Linux xxx 3.0.0-14-generic #23-Ubuntu SMP Mon Nov 21 20:28:43 UTC 2011
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I was changing the main group of my login with "usermod -g newgroup
user". Later, I did erase the old group. The op
I'm with Karmic 64bit and like @Stapel with ati graphics. I had same
problem with openssh-server package. Package installed without problem
after renaming files.
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I tried installing openssh-server and it failed on
useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later.
I then found this bug report and after renaming passwd.lock, passwd+ and
shadow.lock I could install openssh-server without any problems.
My system crashes when I try to run a guest session. I h
@Milan: It was present in Karmic beta but not in Karmic final. I think
it went away with kernel v 2.6.31-14, but I'm not certain.
@Nicolas: Hmm...point taken, but I would say it depends then. In a debug
version of Ubuntu, we should probably leave it for examination; but in a
release version, we sh
David: do you mean you have been able to reproduce it before Karmic?
How? That could mean that the main cause of the lock files being left on
the disk would have disappeared, which is good news.
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You
The goal of the lock files is to protect users from doing something
wrong when system files might be in an inconsistent state.
Removing the lock files at boot time would definitely avoid the issue
pointed in this bug report, but would mean "there is probably something
wrong with the system files,
A workaround could be to remove the lock files on bootup.
And btw, with my current Karmic with the latest updates, I cannot
reproduce it anymore.
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I guess the issue is hard to reproduce, but we've already 3 duplicates
of this. The likelyhood that the system crashes at the very moment
useradd is modifying /etc/passwd is so tiny that I immediately thought
there was some special casing for gdm-guest-session, e.g. blocking
/etc/passwd while the g
> adduser in Debian doesn't seem to be very responsive to our bug
reports, so we may need to fix it ourselves...
Whether this will be fixed by yourselves or by Debian, the problem need
to be understood first.
Is there a way to reproduce the issue? Does anybody have an idea if this
lock file was r
Do you mean that adduser likely crashed when you called it, leaving
those lock files? What's the kind of call you're passing to it? adduser
in Debian doesn't seem to be very responsive to our bug reports, so we
may need to fix it ourselves...
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** Changed in: shadow (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Changed in: gdm-guest-session (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
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Tuomas: it's very unlikely that you experienced the very same crash.
That's why I asked David to report a separate bug. Here, we just deal
with the troubles that appear after a crash in guest session,
disregarding its causes.
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