openSUSE 11.2 M3: it's impossible to add user

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#1

I have just installed openSUSE 11.2 M3 (11.1 was before).
I can’t add new user any way. Neither useradd, nor yast works.
Both programs hang.
Only root and one user defined during installation are present in system.
I never have such problem before.

#2

reug wrote:

>
> I have just installed openSUSE 11.2 M3 (11.1 was before).
> I can’t add new user any way. Neither useradd, nor yast works.
> Both programs hang.
> Only root and one user defined during installation are present in
> system.
> I never have such problem before.
>
>

I had the same problem but after a while I saw YAST wasn’t going to finish
so killed the process. When I went back into YAST to try again, I saw the
other user was there. I later logged on to the user with no trouble.

I’m just trying again on another machine and YAST is stuck in “write
passwords” as it was before. In “system monitor”, I have two processes named
yast2 and three named y2base, none of which are using any cpu - also as
before. Successfully logged on to new user again - not by switching user as
that is another problem.

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#3

Me three - although I’m afraid the install is now toast, so I can’t contribute to testing… Waiting for M4.

Just out of curiosity, try middle clicking (two-finger tapping) on something like your network applet. What happens?

#4

I saw the same in the top.
I’ve also discovered that when I try to terminate useradd process (Ctrl-C in terminal), it ignores the signal. Kill with -9 results termination, but I don’t understand where such “unfihished” account has been stored. After that, I’m going to delete this “wrong” account, but ‘userdel’ says that there is no such user (!), I say OK and try again to add user by ‘useradd’ utility, which says: user already exists :open_mouth:
I don’t understand anything here.
I’ve checked /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/group to find the user, but this account doesn’t exist where.
As I found out from yast, neither LDAP, nor other servers are used to store user accounts, so I guess all information must be in the files mentioned above.

#5

Don’t know the create account process, but it was hanging at password. Did a ps aux noticed nscd was running sent it a kill signal and it went through. The account is created and I can login with it.

#6

Thank you for your idea about nscd daemon. Everything works if it 's not running!