[CentOS] Re: useradd: unable to lock password file

Thu Sep 1 05:35:36 UTC 2005
Nick Bryant <list at everywhereinternet.com>

> On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 14:19 +1000, Nick Bryant wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Ok $200USD for anyone who can help me fix this now.... rebooted and it
> > doesn't say the file is locked anymore... the useradd command just
> doesn't
> > die or return anything and just sits there chewing data :(
> >
> > Man down.
> ----
> you didn't say which version of CentOS

Sorry, 3.5.

> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=126709

Sounds similar... expect I don't seem to get the non-removing lock file
everytime. I guess there was some condition that caused it to not remove
itself.