Your message dated Fri, 29 Apr 2011 07:14:48 +0200
with message-id <[email protected]>
and subject line Re: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#614946: Acknowledgement (passwd:
/usr/sbin/groupadd fails because it cannot rename /etc/group.)
has caused the Debian Bug report #614946,
regarding passwd: /usr/sbin/groupadd fails because it cannot rename /etc/group.
to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.
(NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this
message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system
misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact [email protected]
immediately.)
--
614946: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=614946
Debian Bug Tracking System
Contact [email protected] with problems
--- Begin Message ---
Package: passwd
Version: 1:4.1.4.2+svn3283-3
Severity: normal
aptitude failed to install the pcscd package failed because the postinst
script could not add the pcscd group. It turned out that /usr/sbin/groupadd
was failing, because it could not rename /etc/group+ to /etc/group and I had to
edit /etc/group manually. I have reproduced the problem below:
[root@ulthar:/etc] # groupadd grptest
groupadd: failure while writing changes to /etc/group
[root@ulthar:/etc] # strace -e rename groupadd grptest
rename("/etc/group+", "/etc/group") = -1 EBUSY (Device or resource busy)
groupadd: failure while writing changes to /etc/group
lsof shows nothing:
[root@ulthar:/etc] # lsof /etc/group
Move and patch also fail:
[root@ulthar:/etc] # mv group+ group
mv: cannot move `group+' to `group': Device or resource busy
[root@ulthar:/etc] # mv group /tmp/
mv: cannot move `group' to `/tmp/group': Device or resource busy
[root@ulthar:/etc] # diff -u group group+
--- group 2011-02-24 11:50:32.000000000 +0000
+++ group+ 2011-02-24 11:50:41.000000000 +0000
@@ -70,3 +70,4 @@
cl-builder:x:127:
ntpd:x:128:
pcscd:x:129:
+grptest:x:1004:
[root@ulthar:/etc] # diff -u group group+ | patch -p0
patching file group
patch: **** Can't rename file /root/tmp/pogtvZ4Y to group : Device or
resource busy
Editing the file in-place works as expected:
[root@ulthar:/etc] # tail -1 group+ >> group
[root@ulthar:/etc] # diff group group+
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (900, 'stable'), (90, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages passwd depends on:
ii debianutils 3.4.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.11.2-11 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libpam-modules 1.1.1-6.1 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii libpam0g 1.1.1-6.1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries
passwd recommends no packages.
passwd suggests no packages.
-- debconf information:
passwd/password-mismatch:
passwd/username: azazel
passwd/password-empty:
passwd/user-uid:
passwd/shadow: true
passwd/username-bad:
passwd/user-fullname:
passwd/make-user: true
passwd/title:
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Quoting Jeremy Sowden ([email protected]):
> Haven't been able to reproduce this since I fixed some problems in my
> /etc/fstab arising from a bug in a script I wrote to set up schroots, so
> I suspect some broken bind mounts were responsible.
>
> Sorry for the noise.
No problem. Closing the bug report as fixed on your side.
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
--- End Message ---
