topic Segmentation fault in Operating System - Linux

Segmentation fault

Edwin Ruiz_2 — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 09:19:07 GMT

Hi!

I have one problem again... when i use useradd or groupadd command i get that error:

Segmentation fault...

Do somebody know why?

Re: Segmentation fault

Mark Grant — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 09:25:10 GMT

This is just a guess but it may be that you have a corruption in /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow. Have a look at them manually and see if there is anythign obviously wrong with them.

However, it could be a whole host of things that is causing this error but most of them start to look a bit nasty compared with just a corrupted passwd file.

Re: Segmentation fault

Jerome Henry — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 10:16:48 GMT

This message is always a file problem... on writing on your HD... So /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow is a good bet...
Check also your rights, verifying that you 'su -' to enter this command.

hth

J