| Summary: | change root's passwd in setup report "/etc/shadow" device busy | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Chris Pelland <cpelland> |
| Component: | ovirt-node | Assignee: | Mike Burns <mburns> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs> |
| Severity: | urgent | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | urgent | ||
| Version: | 5.8 | CC: | bsarathy, cpelland, cshao, gouyang, jboggs, leiwang, mburns, moli, ovirt-maint, pm-eus, sgordon, syeghiay, ycui |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | ZStream |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | ovirt-node-1.0-84.el5_8.1 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: |
Attempts to change the root user's password would result in a "device busy" error on the "/etc/shadow/" file. This occurred because multipathd held a lock on the file. The script that changes the password now restarts multipathd to release the lock, avoiding the "device busy" error.
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Story Points: | --- |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2012-03-07 14:06:29 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
| Bug Depends On: | 750149 | ||
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Description
Chris Pelland
2012-02-23 17:14:35 UTC
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Attempts to change the root user's password would result in a "device busy" error on the "/etc/shadow/" file. This occurred because multipathd held a lock on the file. The script that changes the password now restarts multipathd to release the lock, avoiding the "device busy" error.
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-0367.html |