The addgroup command hangs forever if NIS is set in /etc/group
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| adduser (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: adduser
I originally reported this against installing ssl-cert, but then I got the same problem installing postfix and decided it must be something general. I tried running addgroup directly and had the same issue.
I've installed NIS on my Ubuntu 6.06.1 system and configured it for our NIS server; it all works fine. I added "+:::" to the end of /etc/group so that I could get NIS group lookup, and that works fine as well.
But, when "+:::" is at the end of /etc/group then any invocation of addgroup will hang forever.
If I remove that line, it works.
This is a major problem because many packages want to install new groups, and it's completely non-obvious what the problem is or what the solution might be when the installation/config scripts simply hang with no output at all.
| JoergHoh (joerghoh) wrote | #1 |
| Carlos Diener / emonkey (emonkey) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in adduser: | |
| status: | New → Incomplete |
| Paul Smith (psmith-gnu) wrote | #3 |
| Greg Grossmeier (greg.grossmeier) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in adduser: | |
| status: | Incomplete → Invalid |
This rather sounds more like a problem of the useradd program which is called by adduser.