Okay, thanks for the information. System working okay now. : ) On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Chris Warrick <kwpolska@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 >
