I try to add a new user to see if the error goes away but I can't even add a new user

[leinunnew]

I try to add a new user to see if the error goes away but I can't even add a new user..

id: cannot find name for group ID 500
[.@localhost home]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost home]# adduser abc
bash: adduser: command not found
[root@localhost home]# adduser
bash: adduser: command not found
[root@localhost home]# addusr
bash: addusr: command not found
[root@localhost home]# adduser
bash: adduser: command not found
[root@localhost home]# adduser
bash: adduser: command not found
[root@localhost home]# man adduser
Formatting page, please wait...
[root@localhost home]# useradd
bash: useradd: command not found
[root@localhost home]# man adduser
[root@localhost home]# useradd -D
bash: useradd: command not found
[root@localhost home]#

Oh and when I open the home files I get a
"Cannot find parent item file:///home in the tree. Internal error."

[saikee]

root@saikee-desktop:/abit/saikee/Desktop# useradd abc
root@saikee-desktop:/abit/saikee/Desktop# cat /etc/passwd|grep abc
abc:x:2765:2765::/home/abc:/bin/sh
root@saikee-desktop:/abit/saikee/Desktop#

You see it does work.

So what distro are you using?

[leinunnew]

Fedora 7

It works for that system, not this one. Anyone know how to fix it? That error

id: cannot find name for group ID 500
&
when I open the home files I get a
"Cannot find parent item file:///home in the tree. Internal error."

I think that might be causing it.

[saikee]

OK I hooped into a FC7

[root@localhost /]# ls /home
[root@localhost /]# useradd -u 500 JustLinux
[root@localhost /]# ls /home
JustLinux
[root@localhost /]# cat /etc/passwd|grep JustLinux
JustLinux:x:500:500::/home/JustLinux:/bin/bash
[root@localhost /]#

[JRefL5]

Two options.
1) use "su -" then try useradd
2) try "/sbin/useradd "
su does not change to use roots path unledd you use the '-' option.

the missing filesystem structure does not seem correct as the parrent to "/home" is "/"
>cd /
>ls -l
>cat /etc/fstab

[knute]

I try to add a new user to see if the error goes away but I can't even add a new user..

id: cannot find name for group ID 500
[.@localhost home]$ su
Password:

First off, the meaning of this error is telling you that your /etc/group file has some either invalid or corrupted info in it.
It's saying, "Hey, I can't find a reference in /etc/group for id number 500!"

It would seem that something bad may have happened to your system.
What was the last thing that was done on the system before this happened? (Before you say nothing, well, my response would have to be that it was caused by stray cosmic radiation that was captured by the gravitational spin of the hard drive and caused excessive fragmentation of the mca bus. (ala bofh) ) So what happened?

Knute

[leinunnew]

The last thing I did was reinstall the os, meaning that it should overwrites any problems.

id: cannot find name for group ID 500
[.@localhost home]$ cd /
[.@localhost /]$ ls -l
total 142
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-07-17 10:47 bin
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 2007-07-16 21:31 boot
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 3980 2007-07-18 15:54 dev
drwxr-xr-x 95 root root 12288 2007-07-18 15:12 etc
drwxr-xr-x 23 . 500 4096 2007-07-18 15:12 home
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 2007-07-17 10:37 lib
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 2007-05-25 15:56 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-07-18 15:12 media
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2007-07-18 15:11 misc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-07-16 23:04 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2007-07-18 15:11 net
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-07-17 14:47 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 119 root root 0 2007-07-18 15:11 proc
drwxr-x--- 21 root root 4096 2007-07-18 12:53 root
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 2007-07-17 10:47 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 0 2007-07-18 15:11 selinux
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-04-17 08:46 srv
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 0 2007-07-18 15:11 sys
drwxrwxrwt 18 root root 4096 2007-07-18 16:17 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 2007-05-25 16:10 usr
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 2007-05-25 16:12 var
[.@localhost /]$ cat /etc/fstab
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0
[.@localhost /]$

In /etc/group,

root:x:0:root
bin:x:1:root,bin,daemon
daemon:x:2:root,bin,daemon
sys:x:3:root,bin,adm
adm:x:4:root,adm,daemon
tty:x:5:
disk:x:6:root
lp:x:7:daemon,lp
mem:x:8:
kmem:x:9:
wheel:x:10:root
mail:x:12:mail
news:x:13:news
uucp:x:14:uucp
man:x:15:
games:x:20:
gopher:x:30:
dip:x:40:
ftp:x:50:
lock:x:54:
nobody:x:99:
users:x:100:
utmp:x:22:
utempter:x:35:
floppy:x:19:
vcsa:x:69:
rpc:x:32:
ntp:x:38:
nscd:x:28:
mailnull:x:47:
smmsp:x:51:
jackuser:x:334:
fuse:x:499:
sshd:x:74:
rpcuser:x:29:
nfsnobody:x:65534:
tcpdump:x:72:
slocate:x:21:
rpm:x:37:
dbus:x:81:
avahi:x:70:
xfs:x:43:
haldaemon:x:68:
gnokii:x:498:
abc:x:501:

See anything that I can fix? . is my username; abc is just one I created but am going to delete.
id: cannot find name for group ID 500
&
when I open the home files I get a
"Cannot find parent item file:///home in the tree. Internal error."

[knute]

It is the reinstall that is causing this issue for you.

Also, the fix for this issue is actually quite simple.

as root:

chown root:root /home

Then try to adduser.