useradd taking an incredible amount of time during an install

[David C. Hacker, DVM]

I have used YDL for quite a while and have never heard of this problem. 
  I would let it finish and see what happens.
David C. Hacker, DVM
On Jul 22, 2004, at 11:03 AM, David L Kindred (Dave) wrote:

> Has anyone else seen useradd take in incredible amount of time during 
> an
> installation?  I'm putting 3.0.1 on a G4, and everything went smoothly
> until this point.  It seems to be taking at least a half hour per user
> (3 were defined) to do the useradds.  Looking at /mnt/sysimage/etc does
> show the expected file updates taking place, but also shows the .lock
> files hanging around a lot longer than expected.
>
> Is this something I need to worry about, or should I just let it
> continue?
>
> BTW, although this is my first PPC/YDL install, I've done hundreds of
> Wintel/RedHat/Fedora installs and have never seen an install go wrong 
> at
> this particular point.  Googling "yellowdog-general useradd" didn't 
> seem
> to bring up anything relevant either :(
>
> -- 
> David L. Kindred
> Unix Systems & Network Administrator
> Telesciences, Inc.
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