Cannot lock the password file; try again later.

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[slackphil]

Just installed 2.5 in a vm as well as an itx.. i cannot change the passwd for root and make it stick, i even tried option 0 for shell and ran `login` and tried to change from there with `passwd` it asked for password twice like norm but gave an error.. Cannot lock the password file; try again later.

this happened on both installs.. any hints?

[slackphil]

Ok so I figured this one out.. After getting a shell (option 0) and after logging in with login command and entering the default root password (endian) I ran the following..

Code:

passwd

then type password in twice of course

Code:

passwd -u root

and that fixed it for me..