I had the same situation on my ubuntu 9.10 Karmic , I was trying to add my user id to dba Group in order to star and stop the DB services by own , r...@ubuntu:~$ usermod -a -G dba raja usermod: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later. i checked for any process locked the /etc/passwd file but found nothing . Then i tried to run the command with sudo this time it worked.
-- useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/523896 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
