warning

[Ulrich Spoerlein]

Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Robert Huff <roberthuff at rcn.com> wrote:
> >	While upgrading x11/toolkits/linux-gtk2, I get this:
> >
> >GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id (0)
> >
> >	Nothing seems to be broken, but I'd like to confirm this isn't
> >the harbinger for some more obscure but equally damaging problem.
> >(And, of course, learn how to make it go away if possible.)
> 
> I've seen this too at the time I created the update for the port. So far I've
> seen no problem so far. It's just a warning, not an error (according to the
> message you quoted here). I assume GTK is able to differentiate between a
> warning and an error.
> 
> I have some ideas what may be the cause (it may involve LINUXBASE/etc/passwd
> and related files), but so far I hadn't time to investigate this closer and
> maybe quiet the warning somehow.

I get a similar error when running acroread7. My UID is 1000 and is not
in /etc/passwd, but comes from NIS. Sadly, acroread7 bails out, if it
can't resolve the UID.

The fix is, to tell /compat/linux/etc/nsswitch.conf to look at NIS too.
It's a minor inconvenience, that nsswitch.conf gets clobbered every time
linux_base is reinstalled (and thereby breaking acroread7 for me).

Robert: Is UID 0 in your /etc/passwd? Can you try changeing
/compat/linux/etc/nsswitch.conf to something like this:

passwd:     files nisplus nis
shadow:     files nisplus nis
group:      files nisplus nis

Ulrich Spoerlein
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