>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Hobbs <ee95seh@brunel.ac.uk> writes:

Steve> I have just upgraded my arm32 NetBSD machine from 1.3.? to 1.4
Steve> release, by hand-installing the files. The system is installed
Steve> OK, and runs happily, except that (a) running passwd on a user
Steve> _always_ reports "passwd file busy, try again later". Using
Steve> vipw, and leaving the password field blank always worked under
Steve> 1.3, but now I can't login at all. The only way into the system
Steve> is to boot single user, and do everything as root.

Steve> The permissions on the passwd related files seem OK, so what is
Steve> going on??

You probably have a file named /etc/pw.* sitting around.  Remove it,
and you should be fine.  It's a password lock file.

Chris

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