adduser after update to 9.0

[hirohitosan]

Hi there.

After updating from 8.2 to 9.0 I tried to create a new user with the adduser command. After all steps the following message appears:

pw: user 'test' disappeared during update
adduser: ERROR: There was an error adding user (test).

I cannot delete that user:

rmuser: user (test) does not exist in the password database.

What is wrong?
How can I create new users from now?

Thanks

 

[SirDice]

Have a look in /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd. Does the user exist in one of them?

 

[hirohitosan]

Have a look in /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd. Does the user exist in one of them?

Yes. The user 'test' is in both /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd.

 

[SirDice]

Try removing it using vipw(8). Once it's removed there try adduser(8) again.

 

[hirohitosan]

Thanks SirDice it works! I don't understand how ... but it works

 

[SirDice]

The user accounts are actually stored in a database. It's possible it got out of sync with your /etc/passwd file.