From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 13 16:57:20 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28705106564A for ; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:57:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from uqs@spoerlein.net) Received: from acme.spoerlein.net (cl-43.dus-01.de.sixxs.net [IPv6:2a01:198:200:2a::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC41F8FC14 for ; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:57:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from uqs@spoerlein.net) Received: from acme.spoerlein.net (localhost.spoerlein.net [127.0.0.1]) by acme.spoerlein.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n6DGvIjn076246 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:57:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from uqs@spoerlein.net) Received: (from uqs@localhost) by acme.spoerlein.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n6DGvIqN076245; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:57:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from uqs@spoerlein.net) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:57:17 +0200 From: Ulrich =?utf-8?B?U3DDtnJsZWlu?= To: Vlad Galu Message-ID: <20090713165717.GN2145@acme.spoerlein.net> Mail-Followup-To: Vlad Galu , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pw groupadd/useradd fail when the nscd cache is used for name/group resolution X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:57:20 -0000 On Thu, 09.07.2009 at 16:13:25 +0300, Vlad Galu wrote: > I've stumbled upon this while installing postgres. In > /etc/nsswitch.conf I had "group: cache files compat" and "passwd: > cache files compat". Once I commented them out things started working > again. Before the change, this is how it looked like: > > -- cut here -- > [root@vgalu /usr/ports/databases/postgresql84-server]# pw group add pgsql -g 70 > pw: group disappeared during update > [root@vgalu /usr/ports/databases/postgresql84-server]# pw group add pgsql -g 70 > pw: group 'pgsql' already exists > [root@vgalu /usr/ports/databases/postgresql84-server]# > -- and here -- > > Shouldn't 'files' be used upon a cache miss? If this is a PEBKAC, > sorry for the noise. Just a me too. This is most likely because nscd is also caching negative lookups. The usual workaround would be to restart it using /etc/rc.d/nscd restart Cheers, Ulrich Spörlein