On Wed, 2005-13-07 at 18:27 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
I've been copying old passwd/shadow/group files from system to system for ages across different distributions/updates and would like to get them back in sync with each other so the system tools will work. Now they hang like:
#userdel irose hangs forever, syslog says: Jul 12 11:19:32 newftp userdel[30335]: delete user `irose' Jul 12 11:19:32 newftp userdel[30335]: delete `irose' from group `ftp' Jul 12 11:20:02 newftp last message repeated 373404 times Jul 12 11:21:04 newftp last message repeated 646597 times Jul 12 11:21:06 newftp last message repeated 29123 times
I recall a message about something similar to this in the Fedora users lists, I believe. I think the person that reported it tracked it down to a bug in useradd etc.
Run a search in the Fedora list, and check out bugzilla.
HTH,
Ranbir