Package: base Version: 1.1.0-4 The new /etc/passwd contains the line nobody:*:65534:65534:nobody:/dev/null which is clearly missing a trailing colon. This error causes lots of things that do name lookups to fail, e.g. getpwnam. Dave -- Dave Holland <93djh2@eng.cam.ac.uk> http://zenda.chu.cam.ac.uk/