On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Nick <s...@protonmail.com> wrote: > Hello, new issue I haven't ever had and no idea how to fix it either - > rebooting does not help. What the $%%! is going on, anyone help? > > Here it is: ... > Reading /etc/shells > Check /etc/master.passwd > Password file busy > # > > I have checked both /etc/passwd, /etc/master.passwd and I cannot see any > issues with it.
Is your root partition mounted read-only? (Someone want to write a diff to make password file locking check the errno returned and only claim it's busy when the expected value?) Philip Guenther
