[Adduser-devel] Bug#344488: deluser: Strange "Can't opendir(/proc/9908/task): No such file or directory" message

[Marc Haber]

tags #344488 moreinfo
thanks

On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 12:13:13AM +0000, Kai Hendry wrote:
> Package: deluser
> Version: adduser
> Severity: normal

which version?

> I discovered a user that shouldn't probably be on the system, so I
> trying to nuke it:
> 
> bible$ sudo deluser --remove-all-files tester
> Looking for files to backup/remove...
> Can't opendir(/proc/9908/task): No such file or directory
>  at /usr/sbin/deluser line 283
> Removing files...
> Removing user `tester'...
> done.

Can you still see how the /etc/passwd line of that user looked like,
maybe from one of the numerous backups of /etc/passwd?

Greetings
Marc

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