Segmentation fault(coredump) Error

[Germo]

To All,

I wonder if any of you can help me out, I am getting the following error when I run the "mkuser" command, do any of you know why? because I don't

###############################
--> mkuser terry5
Segmentation fault(coredump)
###############################

thanks

 

[p5wizard]

Put a "set -x" at the beginning of /usr/lib/security/mkuser.sys (right after the comment block) and run your mkuser command again. Carefull! - you're modifying a system script - make a backup first?

You'll get some idea of what's going on under the covers and what is leading up to the coredump.


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[Germo]

Same thing happens....

the errpt command pulls up this error

################################################
LABEL: CORE_DUMP
IDENTIFIER: C60BB505

Date/Time: Fri 9 Sep 15:14:13
Sequence Number: 616
Machine Id: 00534F1A4C00
Node Id: tr01
Class: S
Type: PERM
Resource Name: SYSPROC

Description
SOFTWARE PROGRAM ABNORMALLY TERMINATED

Probable Causes
SOFTWARE PROGRAM

User Causes
USER GENERATED SIGNAL

Recommended Actions
CORRECT THEN RETRY

Failure Causes
SOFTWARE PROGRAM

Recommended Actions
RERUN THE APPLICATION PROGRAM
IF PROBLEM PERSISTS THEN DO THE FOLLOWING
CONTACT APPROPRIATE SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Detail Data
SIGNAL NUMBER
11
USER'S PROCESS ID:
107322
FILE SYSTEM SERIAL NUMBER
7
INODE NUMBER
6160
PROGRAM NAME
mkuser
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
strlen 80
copy_out_ 168
_getpwuid 288
IDtouser 8C
checkuids 3C
getids 594
makeuser 128
main 354
__start 8C

Symptom Data
REPORTABLE
1
INTERNAL ERROR
1
SYMPTOM CODE
PIDS/5765c3403 LVLS/430 PCSS/SPI2 FLDS/mkuser SIG/11 FLDS/strlen VALU/80 FLDS/checkuids
####################################################

I thinking is that the user files are corrupted. but I am not 100% sure on that.

 

[p5wizard]

can you still lsuser or chuser?

HTH,

p5wizard

 

[Germo]

Yes I can still chuser.

 

[p5wizard]

You didn't remove or modify /etc/security/.ids ?

1
SYMPTOM CODE
PIDS/5765c3403 LVLS/430 PCSS/SPI2 FLDS/mkuser SIG/11 FLDS/strlen VALU/80 FLDS/checkuids
####################################################



HTH,

p5wizard

 

[Germo]

Nope... that file is still there and unmodifed.

 

[hirschaj]

Run this command and post output....

pwdchk -n ALL


Jim Hirschauer

http://www.aixexpert.com

 

[Germo]

It will be a long list as there are 7500 created id's on this server.

 

[Germo]

Thanks all, I have managed to fix problem now.

In brief it was to do with the index's we have on the user files, they where corrupted so I ran mkpasswd -c which corrects any user index's errors.

Thanks again.