From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Allan Webber Subject: bug#22626: Postgres service fails on adding user Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 15:07:49 -0800 Message-ID: <8737sy7smy.fsf@dustycloud.org> References: <8760xwhzpt.fsf@dustycloud.org> <87io1vtv9n.fsf@gnu.org> <87io1vqgzz.fsf@dustycloud.org> <871t8ikh7o.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49691) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aU0LD-0002Te-Kb for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Feb 2016 18:08:04 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aU0LC-0004Nx-Sr for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Feb 2016 18:08:03 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:56130) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aU0LC-0004Nr-Pu for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Feb 2016 18:08:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aU0LC-0005Zl-LN for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Feb 2016 18:08:02 -0500 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-To: bug-guix@gnu.org Resent-Message-ID: In-reply-to: <871t8ikh7o.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: 22626-done@debbugs.gnu.org Ludovic Courtès writes: > Apparently there’s a stale lock file that prevents ‘groupadd’ from > succeeding, maybe from an earlier crash or something? > > Could you forcefully remove /etc/*.lock and retry? Well, that fixed it! I guess I could have guessed by the context clues being dumped into stdout... :) Anyway, closed!