Re: 2.6.15-rc3: adduser: unable to lock password file

JaniD++
2005-12-04T14:50:27Z

----- Original Message -----
From: "Trond Myklebust" <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: "JaniD++" <djani22@dynamicweb.hu>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: 2.6.15-rc3: adduser: unable to lock password file

> On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 14:00 +0100, JaniD++ wrote:
>
> > Here is the strace-s output: (20KB)
> > http://download.netcenter.hu/bughunt/20051203/adduser.log
> >
> > This problem is always on on 2.6.15-rc3, and newer on 2.6.14.2
>
> OK... Looks like it is bailing out after the lines
>
> link("/etc/passwd.2522", "/etc/passwd.lock") = 0
> stat64("/etc/passwd.2522", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=5, ...}) = 0
>
> I'll bet the stat64 is filing to show that the file now has 2 links.
>
> As a first step, could you please grab the 2 patches
>
>
http://client.linux-nfs.org/Linux-2.6.x/2.6.15-rc4/linux-2.6.15-01-nfs-cache-init.dif
> and
>
http://client.linux-nfs.org/Linux-2.6.x/2.6.15-rc4/linux-2.6.15-02-fix_cache_consistency.dif
>
> and see if they fix the problem?

done.
No change. :(

Cheers,

Janos

>
> Cheers,
> Trond
>
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