On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Richard Hayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote...

: We have lost the root password.  I can boot into single user mode and run 
: passwd but I get an error saying " pwdb - another process has locked 
: resource"  crital error.

As I recall, this is related to the existance of the passwd.lock (or
similarly-named file) in /etc.

You may need to find the lockfile and remove it.

Matt.
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