From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 1 12:56:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9BD3237B400 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 12:56:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 70348 invoked by uid 100); 1 Dec 2000 20:56:50 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14888.4242.235426.199708@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 14:56:50 -0600 (CST) To: Paje da Oca Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "passwd" broken on 4.2-RELEASE? In-Reply-To: <80953025@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Message: You should get a better mailer. Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Paje da Oca types: > After installing (twice!) 4.2-RELEASE, I could not > get the commands "passwd" or "chsh" to work. They > simply "freeze", until interrupted with CTL-C. > > Am I missing something, or those commands are broken? I'd be surprised if they were broken. The binaries you installed may be corrupt on your system, but that's a different problem. With no more information than that, it's hard to suggest anything (unless you've seen this problem before, which I haven't). Try gathering more information. Minimally, typing the status character while they are "frozen" will tell you what they are doing. Compiling and installing versions with the -g flag and without stripping the binary will allow you to use gdb to grab the process and tell you where they are doing it. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Unix/FreeBSD consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message