>I suspect the errror message should give more details :)

i think it should as well.  fwiw:

Apr  8 23:22:40 something syslog: /etc/pwd.db: Invalid argument
Apr 20 18:19:11 something netscape: /etc/pwd.db: Invalid argument

i have *no* idea why this happens.

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