Re: [webmin-l] Weird errors after restoring virtual server backups (virtualmin)
"Jamie Cameron" <[email protected]>
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On 16/Sep/2016 05:18 Joaquim Homrighausen <[email protected]> wrote .. > > We're moving Virtualmin servers from one environment to another (this by > the way seems like a never ending story when you host sites and servers > need to be upgraded/enhanced/etc). > > All of a sudden, I'm seeing this, which I haven't seen before: > > pwconv: existing lock file /etc/passwd.lock with an invalid PID '13684 > ' > > (that's a verbatim copy) > > So I try to run pwconv from my shell. Virtualmin is done restoring the > backup. Webmin isn't doing anything in particular. And I'm the only > shell user on the server. > > This has happened to me three times today, and never before. If I remove > the lock files and run grpconv and pwconv manually again, all is fine. Is there any process running with that PID? If not, the cause may be that Virtualmin locked /etc/passwd but didn't clean up the lock file properly. For Virtualmin itself this is pretty harmless because it just ignores lock files with invalid PIDs. But it seems like the pwconv command complains more :-) - Jamie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Forwarded by the Webmin mailing list at [email protected] To remove yourself from this list, go to http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webadmin-list