'rmuser' hangs forever?

[sbremal at hotmail.com]

Hello

Desperately want to remove a user:

[root at domain ~]# rmuser -v coworker
Matching password entry:

coworker:*:1003:1003::0:0:User &:/home/coworker:/bin/sh

Is this the entry you wish to remove? yes
Remove user's home directory (/home/coworker)? yes
Removing crontab for (coworker):.
Removing at(1) jobs owned by (coworker): 0 removed.
Removing IPC mechanisms.
Terminating all processes owned by (coworker): -KILL signal sent to 0
processes.
Removing files owned by (coworker) in /tmp: 0 removed.
Removing files owned by (coworker) in /var/tmp: 0 removed.
Removing mail spool(s) for (coworker): /var/mail/coworker.
Removing user (coworker) (including home directory) from the system:yes

... then it hangs forever. A few more details:

[root at domain ~]# fuser /etc/master.passwd /etc/passwd /etc/group /etc/spwd.db
/e
tc/pwd.db
/etc/master.passwd:  2230w
/etc/passwd:
/etc/group:  2230w
/etc/spwd.db:
/etc/pwd.db:

last pid:  2717;  load averages:  1.44,  1.32,  1.13    up 0+00:33:07  00:37:20 
47 processes:  2 running, 44 sleeping, 1 zombie
CPU:     % user,     % nice,     % system,     % interrupt,     % idle
Mem: 145M Active, 69M Inact, 57M Wired, 60M Buf, 211M Free
Swap: 1536M Total, 1536M Free
  PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME    WCPU COMMAND
 2230 root          1 103    0 10244K  1896K CPU1    1   6:06 100.00% pw

This morning the same:

last pid:  5723;  load averages:  1.28,  1.27,  1.21    up 0+09:15:16  09:19:29 
47 processes:  2 running, 44 sleeping, 1 zombie
CPU: 50.4% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt, 49.6% idle
Mem: 96M Active, 277M Inact, 98M Wired, 9740K Cache, 59M Buf, 956K Free
Swap: 1536M Total, 1536M Free
  PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME    WCPU COMMAND
 2230 root          1 103    0 10244K  1432K CPU0    0 527:25 100.00% pw

How difficult could it be to remove a user?! ;-)


Cheers
Balazs