I had the same situation here, it turns out it was a stuck useradd process - destroying it got useradd working again, something like this:
killall -9 userdel rm -f /etc/*lock In my case the stuck useradd was caused by a bug in my own script, but for the others, if it was caused by the package manager then I guess there might be a package out there with a bug in it's call to useradd. -- useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/523896 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
