When I try to delete a user from my system, I always get this error message since the last upgrade of shadow (sys-apps/shadow-4.0.14-r1)! With sys-apps/shadow-4.0.14-r1: MindLess ~ # useradd bob MindLess ~ # LC_ALL="en_US" userdel bob userdel: error removing group entry userdel: error removing shadow group entry MindLess ~ # With sys-apps/shadow-4.0.7-r4: MindLess ~ # useradd bob MindLess ~ # LC_ALL="en_US" userdel bob MindLess ~ # Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="fr_CA" LC_ALL="fr_CA" LINGUAS="fr" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acl acpi alsa apache2 arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr cli crypt ctype cups curl dba dbus directfb dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd ethereal exif expat fam fastbuild ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk2 hal iconv idn imlib innodb ipv6 jabber java jpeg lcms libg++ libwww lirc mad memlimit mhash mikmod mmx mng motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ntpl ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pcmcia pcre pdflib perl php png posix postgres python qt quicktime readline samba sdl session simplexml soap sockets speex spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl svga tcltk tcpd threads tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb vorbis wifi xinerama xml xml2 xmms xsl xv xvid zlib linguas_fr userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Upgrading to sys-apps/shadow-4.0.14-r2 did not solve the problem.
*** Bug 126431 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Setting USERGROUPS_ENAB to "no" in /etc/login.defs seems to solve the problem! But why?
bug introduced in shadow 4.0.14 and already fixed upstream grabbed upstream fix and added shadow-4.0.14-r3
