HI! The useradd program hangs in an infinite loop on a Compaq server system with SuSE Linux 9.0 Professional. See strace log below. Relevant packages: k_smp4G-2.4.21-192 shadow-4.0.3-182 Anyone having a clue what that might be? Maybe it's related to the last kernel update? Ciao, Michael. -------------------------------- snip -------------------------------- [..repeating actions..] open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY) = 4 fcntl64(4, F_GETFD) = 0 fcntl64(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 _llseek(4, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR) = 0 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=13757, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 13757, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 4, 0) = 0x46171000 _llseek(4, 13757, [13757], SEEK_SET) = 0 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=13757, ...}) = 0 munmap(0x46171000, 13757) = 0 close(4) = 0 mremap(0x40377000, 98541568, 98541568, MREMAP_MAYMOVE) = 0x40377000 open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY) = 4 fcntl64(4, F_GETFD) = 0 fcntl64(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 _llseek(4, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR) = 0 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=13757, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 13757, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 4, 0) = 0x46171000 _llseek(4, 13757, [13757], SEEK_SET) = 0 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=13757, ...}) = 0 munmap(0x46171000, 13757) = 0 close(4) = 0 mremap(0x40377000, 98541568, 98541568, MREMAP_MAYMOVE) = 0x40377000 open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY) = 4 fcntl64(4, F_GETFD) = 0 fcntl64(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 _llseek(4, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR) = 0 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=13757, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 13757, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 4, 0) = 0x46171000 _llseek(4, 13757, [13757], SEEK_SET) = 0 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=13757, ...}) = 0 munmap(0x46171000, 13757) = 0 close(4) = 0 mremap(0x40377000, 98541568, 98545664, MREMAP_MAYMOVE) = 0x40377000 open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY) = 4 fcntl64(4, F_GETFD) = 0 fcntl64(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 _llseek(4, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR) = 0 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=13757, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 13757, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 4, 0) = 0x46172000 _llseek(4, 13757, [13757], SEEK_SET) = 0 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=13757, ...}) = 0 munmap(0x46172000, 13757) = 0 close(4) = 0 mremap(0x40377000, 98545664, 98545664, MREMAP_MAYMOVE) = 0x40377000 open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY) = 4 fcntl64(4, F_GETFD) = 0 fcntl64(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 _llseek(4, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR) = 0 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=13757, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 13757, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 4, 0) = 0x46172000 _llseek(4, 13757, [13757], SEEK_SET) = 0 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=13757, ...}) = 0 munmap(0x46172000, 13757) = 0 close(4) = 0 mremap(0x40377000, 98545664, 98545664, MREMAP_MAYMOVE) = 0x40377000 [..repeating actions..]