nanogui: Thread: Re: off topic [nanogui] files needed for poweroff

On Tue, 29 May 2001 23:21:43 ####@####.#### wrote:
> I cut my linux little to 1.4M and boot as single user "
> id:s:initdefault:"
> The problem is, when I shutdown my pc show me "You don't exist. Go
> away.",
> how to resolve it?

Search for that string in your favorite search engine and I think you'll
get all the answers you want. Here's the first link from google, it pretty
much explains the problem.

http://faq.oreillynet.com/linux/FAQ_13_128.shtm


Gary James
####@####.####
http://home.twcny.rr.com/embedded/

On Wed, 30 May 2001, Gary James wrote:
> Search for that string in your favorite search engine and I think you'll
> get all the answers you want. Here's the first link from google, it pretty
> much explains the problem.

Not a very useful error message, is it. I don't know why they didn't just 
use something like "Couldn't find uuid %d in the password database\n".

-- 
------- Alex Holden -------
http://www.linuxhacker.org/
 http://www.robogeeks.org/

It comes from some of the old uucp stuff, so its more of a "somebody called N 
tried something, but I have no idea who it is" message than anything.  The 
really funky part is that the /etc/passwd file is usually not corrupted, 
*AND* if you type 'whoami' you get the correct name (because the environment 
variable is set).  In fact, you can read / write / modify all with the full 
support of the kernel, because your uuid really isn't bad.

This bug is courtesy of the libc, and I personally hate it.  The specific 
problem is that you are missing the libnss_files.so.1 and/or libnss_db.so.1 
(I forget which one is needed now, either are acceptable).  Anyway, the libc 
uses this shared library to look up names in the passwd file (much like it 
uses libnss_dns.so.1 or libnss_nis.so.1 to look up domain names).  So if you 
don't have the library, it can't do the /etc/passwd lookup, and thus thinks 
that you are missing, even though the rest of the system thinks you are 
legitimate. 

So you need to add the appropriate libnss shared libraries, and then you need 
to make sure you have /etc/nsswitch.conf, and that it is correctly set up to 
look up the passwd as well as some of the other more important ones (dns, 
etc, etc...)

Good luck!
Jordan

 this On Wednesday 30 May 2001 03:35, Alex Holden mentioned:
> On Wed, 30 May 2001, Gary James wrote:
> > Search for that string in your favorite search engine and I think you'll
> > get all the answers you want. Here's the first link from google, it
> > pretty much explains the problem.
>
> Not a very useful error message, is it. I don't know why they didn't just
> use something like "Couldn't find uuid %d in the password database\n".

> This bug is courtesy of the libc, and I personally hate it. 

Oops, I meant this was a "feature".  Its not really a bug, so don't go yell 
at the GCC folks.

Jordan