useradd reports consistent password files

[anilg]

I built mysql, and tried to install it..
dpkg -i mysql-server_5.0.51a-3nexenta6_all.deb

This brings up a text based interface asking for a root password and then fails with
UX: /usr/sbin/useradd: ERROR: Inconsistent password files. See pwconv(1M).
adduser: `/usr/sbin/useradd -d /var/lib/mysql -g mysql -s /bin/false -u 100 mysql' returned error code 5. Exiting.
dpkg: error processing mysql-server-5.0_5.0.51a-3nexenta6_solaris-i386.deb (--install):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mysql-server-5.0_5.0.51a-3nexenta6_solaris-i386.deb

A similar report for useradd was reported before at https://bugs.launchpad.net/nexenta/+bug/186810

what would the workaround be for now?

Note: the original reporter indicated the bug was in package 'mysql'; however, that package was not published in Nexenta Operating System.

[anilg (anil-verve)]

Additionally, running
pwconv followed by apt-get -f install fixes the issue. So looks like theres something wrong with the way /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow is formatted

[Ben Klang (bklang)]

This appears to be fixed in mysql-server_5.0.51a-3nexenta7. Can you confirm or recreate the issue with the latest version of the package?