This problem is affecting Ira but not me (nor anyone else that I know of). If LANG is not C, "pw = getpwuid(geteuid())" returns NULL for him. Has anyone any idea why this should be? -----Forwarded Message----- From: Ira Abramov <debian-bugreport-20020119@ira.abramov.org> To: 130005@bugs.debian.org Subject: Bug#130005: postgresql: can't run initdb with LANG other than C.... Date: 20 Jan 2002 22:46:22 +0200 On 20 Jan 2002, Oliver Elphick wrote: > This is the code, which is all standard calls: > > pw = getpwuid(geteuid()); > if (pw == NULL) > { > fprintf(stderr, "%s: invalid current euid %d\n", > argv[0], (int) geteuid()); > exit(1); > } > > Is there something weird about your system that this shouldn't work? nope... joy:/home/ira# grep postgres /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /etc/passwd:postgres:x:31:32:postgres:/var/lib/postgres:/bin/sh /etc/shadow:postgres:*:11288:0:99999:7::: as you see, all very standard. and remember this only happens with $LANG being anything but LANG=C. I'm out of ideas (bug in glibc?).
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