[CentOS] system-config-users error

Fri Jan 13 18:50:46 UTC 2006
Jeff Montagna <jeff.montagna at mac.com>

Will,
Thanks for the help... I had mistakenly put a "+" on the last line of 
/etc/shadow.
Will McDonald wrote:

>"entry is incorrectly formatted"
>
>Have you got a mangled entry in either /etc/passwd, shadow, group or gshadow?
>
>It might be worth checking both installs are identical too...
>
>machine1# rpm -qa | sort > ~/rpms.sorted.machine1
>
>machine2# rpm -qa | sort > ~/rpms.sorted.machine2
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>Copy rpms.sorted from one machine to the other and then diff them.
>They *should* be identical.
>
>Will.
>
>On 13/01/06, Jeff Montagna <jeff.montagna at mac.com> wrote:
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>>Has anyone seen this error before in CentOS 4.2? I've been setting up
>>two identical systems, one has this error and the other doesn't.  Short
>>of removing and re-installing all the packages related to gtk is there
>>an easier solution? I have removed and re-installed all the
>>system-config tools, but the error didn't change.
>>
>>sudo system-config-users
>>
>>** (system-config-users.py:27349): WARNING **: entry is incorrectly
>>formatted
>>
>>(system-config-users.py:27349): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file
>>gvaluearray.c: line 42 (g_value_array_get_nth): assertion `value_array
>>!= NULL' failed
>>
>>** ERROR **: file lib/user.c: line 662 (merge_ent_array_duplicates):
>>should not be reached
>>aborting...
>>/usr/share/system-config-users/system-config-users: line 4: 27349
>>Aborted           /usr/bin/python2
>>/usr/share/system-config-users/system-config-users.py
>>
>>
>>Jeff Montagna
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