>From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Wayne Bastow >Sent: Thursday, 1 September 2005 1:14 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] useradd: unable to lock password file > >Nick, > >Were you already running a useradd before you started this one? Maybe in another terminal session. Yes. It gets called about 10 times a minute at busy times... however it was working fine then just suddenly stopped :( > >Try killing the process and see if the passwd.lock file is still there. > I've been through and looked for any other process and can't find one :( Any other ideas? >On 9/1/05, Nick <list at everywhereinternet.com> wrote: >Hi, >----------- >Help. I have an issue adding accounts to a centos box of joy that has >otherwise been 100% reliable. > >Basically if I run a "useradd test" as root it returns useradd: unable to >lock password file. > >There is a /etc/passwd.lock file: > >[root at bill etc]# more passwd.lock >6697 > > PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND >6697 root 25 0 22672 22M 612 R 47.2 1.1 1:02 1 useradd > >Eating lots of cpu... but doing what? > >If anyone has any clues I'd really appreciate the help :) > >Cheers, > >Nick _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos