Re: unknown user: root

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Subject: Re: unknown user: root
From: Andy Green <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 21:13:28 +0100
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Marian POPESCU wrote:

nothing; whoami says "cannot find name for user ID 0"; mc will crash as

Is still there hope for me?


I think I would bust out strace

strace -o /tmp/dump whoami

and then

less /tmp/dump

with an eye on the last operations it did which made it believe therewas a problem and it should abort. I would also be looking in logs I guess.


-Andy

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