[BlueOnyx:04089] Re: BlueQuartz Issues any suggestion?

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Muta Wakilu,

> My /etc, contains 3 password files
> paaswd
> passwd-
> passwd.rpmnew
> Howevr, there isnt a passwd.lock

That's BlueQuartz you say? Hmm, OK. 

Although you already manually reverted back to flat file authentication, 
please check the following file in an editor:

/etc/init.d/dbrecover

If the very start of it looks like this, then this may be the problem:

----------------------------------------------
-- dbrecover
+++ dbrecover
@@ -1,84 +0,0 @@
#!/bin/sh
# $Id$
[rest of file]
----------------------------------------------

You see those three lines above "#!/bin/sh"? They shouldn't be there. Instead 
"#!/bin/sh" should be the first line of this file. But apparently a recent 
BlueQuartz update messed this file up with a wrongly applied "patch" command 
in one BlueQuartz RPM's post install section or another. 

To fix this, remove all lines above "#!/bin/sh", save the changes and then run 
these two commands:

/etc/init.d/dbrecover stop
/etc/init.d/dbrecover start

Then see if that fixes your problem.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber