From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030716 Description of problem: System does not recognize newly added group's accounts. [root@atlas etc]# groupadd newgroup [root@atlas etc]# groupdel newgroup groupdel: group newgroup does not exist [root@atlas etc]# tail /etc/group mars3105:x:3030:cacw3651,nalf8660,aaou8507,vbor2369,pcai9030,mcas3799,rcha7337,jcru4178,kdoo8600,kfle2941,rfor2669,afow8958,agra6844,ohad4566,har7280,dhic3522,mkha8902,slam3056,rmai0331,cmcb2608,jmid8818,dmil0895,borf0552,spar8807,jpea8656,dste3801,etho6355,ewel6060,pwil3451,slui6817cmar6132 mars3106:x:3031:nalf8660,rayr7253,pcai9030,rcha7337,kdoo8600,kfle2941,rfor2669,ohad4566,ehar7280,pjam5049,mkha8902,slam3056,nlit2641,slui6817,mcb2608,dmcc4233,jmid8818,dmil0895,kmor5158,spar8807,jpea8656,dste3801,etho6355,cyon8916,kzun2065 envi3002:x:3032:capo6074,jcho5967,gcoc0785,edug6052,mely5044,bfai0975,cfoo3015,ehen4560,amar0750,kmic5919,cobr8297,lohe0554,spee0961,prob4789,sca2080,asym9155,ptho6914,kwoo1381 arph3920:x:3033:kale7141,gbro9539,agre3503,lhea2784,bhil8596,este8907,atas9027,lwat4805,rrop8363,mzamora,jshe7777,nric2542,aler9992 envi5903:x:3034:aash8869,kfos4577,wgra2107,llam2389,anar2647,anas0951,snun6301,bpic7665,gtal3104,ctho3087 mars2004:x:3035:mdal4334,mday4178,aeme0348,mfro2025,agou8336,ehaw9424,zhel0063,mkah9453,lkra7302,smag6378,lmic9380,anob6196,rowe4280,jpal6875,pav7623,aree2720,krob6288,mrog5081,lron6099,nsut7646,ktho8544,ktil4076,rtow8039,mwat6064 cvs:x:3036:ivan cvs-test:x:3037: new:x:3038: newgroup:x:3039: [root@atlas etc]# tail /etc/gshadow mars3105:!::cacw3651,nalf8660,aaou8507,vbor2369,pcai9030,mcas3799,rcha7337,jcru4178,kdoo8600,kfle2941,rfor2669,afow8958,agra6844,ohad4566,ehar280,dhic3522,mkha8902,slam3056,rmai0331,cmcb2608,jmid8818,dmil0895,borf0552,spar8807,jpea8656,dste3801,etho6355,ewel6060,pwil3451,slui6817,cma6132 mars3106:!::nalf8660,rayr7253,pcai9030,rcha7337,kdoo8600,kfle2941,rfor2669,ohad4566,ehar7280,pjam5049,mkha8902,slam3056,nlit2641,slui6817,cmcb608,dmcc4233,jmid8818,dmil0895,kmor5158,spar8807,jpea8656,dste3801,etho6355,cyon8916,kzun2065 envi3002:!::capo6074,jcho5967,gcoc0785,edug6052,mely5044,bfai0975,cfoo3015,ehen4560,amar0750,kmic5919,cobr8297,lohe0554,spee0961,prob4789,jsca080,asym9155,ptho6914,kwoo1381 arph3920:!::kale7141,gbro9539,agre3503,lhea2784,bhil8596,este8907,atas9027,lwat4805,rrop8363,mzamora,jshe7777,nric2542,aler9992 envi5903:!::aash8869,kfos4577,wgra2107,llam2389,anar2647,anas0951,snun6301,bpic7665,gtal3104,ctho3087 mars2004:!::mdal4334,mday4178,aeme0348,mfro2025,agou8336,ehaw9424,zhel0063,mkah9453,lkra7302,smag6378,lmic9380,anob6196,rowe4280,jpal6875,mpav623,aree2720,krob6288,mrog5081,lron6099,nsut7646,ktho8544,ktil4076,rtow8039,mwat6064 cvs:!::ivan cvs-test:!:: new:!:: newgroup:!:: [root@atlas etc]# Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): shadow-utils-20000902-9.7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.groupadd newgroup 2.groupdel newgroup groupdel: group newgroup does not exist Actual Results: There should not be any error messages. Expected Results: Group should be added and removed. Additional info: I mark it as HIGH priority, is not doing its job now.
*** Bug 109372 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***