Adduser.conf parse errors

When I install certain packages now I get

couldn't parse /etc/addusers.conf

this happens on just about every line of that file so 200,000 later it finally finishes and the package installs sucessfully.

Apart from this mass of errors everything seems to be running fine.

I have installed:

Samba

winbind

kerberos

dansguardian

apache

shorewall

mysql

php

 

It doesnt seem to affect normal operation at all but some packages end up taking 15 minutes to install rather than a minute.

The only thing configuration I did that could be related but probably not is

I changed the group on

/var/run/samba/winbindd_privileged

so squid could use NTLM properly.

 

Any ideas?

Debian 3.1 Sarge

remind me what distro your using?

Bizzare, did the web server fall through a timewarp? Anyway...

 

Sounds like a problem with apt. What do the contents of addusers.conf look like? There's little mention of the file on the internet, I'm guessing its a debian specific thing?

It seems to contain configuration for everything thats installed from Samba to phrase lists for Dansguardian. Looking at sections like the samba though they seem to be the default config that they were installled with I may try a rename and see what it does. If not I have a backup from last week.