"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 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: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >