passwd and group files locked

From: Sakellaris Alexander <asakelaris_at_cosmote.gr>
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 15:43:15 +0200

Hi managers,

for some kind of reason whenever I run dxaccounts or
adduser for obvious reasons, the system responds with
the following message:
"The password and group files are crrently locked by another user.
Please try again later."

Off course, there is not a single process (at least as reported by ps(1) )
that accesses these files, and nobody else other than me is root.
what (1) reports only one root account currently logged in.
C2 security is not enabled.
And unfortunately, I don't have lsof in order to see any hanged open
files.

Does anybody have a clue?

Thanks in advance

PS. The system runs 4.0e patch level 2


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                 Alexander Sakellaris
             Sr. Systems Administrator
                         IT Department
       Network/Systems & Support Sector
        COSMOTE Mobile Telecomms S.A
                    Athens / Greece

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