On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 10:07 PM, Francis Gerund <ranrund@xxxxxxxxx> 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
