[arch-general] failed to start verify of integrity of password and group files - Was: (no subject)

[Francis Gerund]

Okay, thanks for the information.

System working okay now.

: )



On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Chris Warrick <kwpolska at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 10:07 PM, Francis Gerund <ranrund at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I actuallly did see that, but that seems to talk about the shadow.service
> > "failing" to start or run properly.
> >
> > the terminal message I was getting said:
> >
> >    shadow.service - Verify integrity of password and group files
> >    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/shadow.service; static; vendor
> > preset: disabled)
> >    Active: inactive (dead)
> >
> > So it was like, "what do that mean"? And since it mentioned checking the
> > password file, I figured I'd best check into it.
> >
> > I don't know what the shadow.service is, and am new to systemd.
>
> The shadow.service comes from the `shadow` package, and it’s
> responsible for checking and testing your /etc/passwd, /etc/group,
> /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow files (which is what the name already
> tells you). The output you pasted means your files are correct and
> there is nothing to worry about. If they weren’t, you would get
> different output (and should run the ExecStart command manually
> without `-r` to resolve the issues):
>
> ● shadow.service - Verify integrity of password and group files
>   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/shadow.service; static;
> vendor preset: disabled)
>   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2015-06-10 17:17:30 CEST;
> 9s ago
>  Process: 9420 ExecStart=/usr/bin/pwck -r (code=exited, status=2)
> Main PID: 9420 (code=exited, status=2)
>
> Jun 10 17:17:30 kw-cassandra systemd[1]: Starting Verify integrity of
> password and group files...
> Jun 10 17:17:30 kw-cassandra systemd[1]: shadow.service: Main process
> exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT
> Jun 10 17:17:30 kw-cassandra systemd[1]: Failed to start Verify
> integrity of password and group files.
> Jun 10 17:17:30 kw-cassandra systemd[1]: shadow.service: Unit entered
> failed state.
> Jun 10 17:17:30 kw-cassandra systemd[1]: shadow.service: Failed with
> result 'exit-code'.
> Jun 10 17:17:30 kw-cassandra pwck[9420]: duplicate password entry
> Jun 10 17:17:30 kw-cassandra pwck[9420]: delete line
> 'bin:x:1:1:bin:/bin:/usr/bin/nologin'? No
> Jun 10 17:17:30 kw-cassandra pwck[9420]: duplicate password entry
> Jun 10 17:17:30 kw-cassandra pwck[9420]: delete line
> 'bin:x:1:1:bin:/bin:/usr/bin/nologin'? No
> Jun 10 17:17:30 kw-cassandra pwck[9420]: pwck: no changes
>
> --
> Chris Warrick <https://chriswarrick.com/>
> PGP: 5EAAEA16
>