Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:00:51 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: "Charlie McElfresh" <cwmcelfresh@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't add any new users Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20070426065937.026912b8@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <44b41e4e0704251231x1358b123ma70550e0181d7dcd@mail.gmail.co m> References: <44b41e4e0704251231x1358b123ma70550e0181d7dcd@mail.gmail.com>
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At 02:31 PM 4/25/2007, Charlie McElfresh wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I recently upgraded all my machines to 6.2 RELEASE. All my machines except
>one work fine.
>
>On one of my machines, I can log in from the console to the super user
>account, but I could not su to my user account.
>
>So, I backed up all my data, and I deleted my user account. Then, I added
>it back with adduser.
>
>When I look in /etc/passwd and /etc/group, I'm in there.
>
>When I try to su to my newly created account, I get this message:
>
>Bad system call (core dumped)
>
>I tried removing my account with rmuser, then adding it back again -- same
>problem.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Charlie
You didn't say how you upgraded this server to 6.2, nor from what
version. I suspect you have an old or missing library. You might do well
on this server to cvsup, buildworld, and install world.
-Derek
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