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Bug 126431

Summary: Error message with "userdel" about group and gshadow entries.
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Gabriel Lavoie <glavoie>
Component: [OLD] baselayoutAssignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: 2006.0   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description Gabriel Lavoie 2006-03-16 07:51:59 UTC 
When I try to delete a user from my system, I always get this error message since the last upgrade of shadow!

MindLess ~ # useradd bob
MindLess ~ # LC_ALL="en_US" userdel bob
userdel: error removing group entry
userdel: error removing shadow group entry
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
Comment 1 Gabriel Lavoie 2006-03-16 08:15:31 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 126432 ***