Bug#56824: libc6: Cannot look up user names from uid

[Brian Bassett <brianb@mail.wsu.edu>]

Package: libc6
Version: 2.1.2-12
Severity: grave

Symptoms:

* My bash PS1 is "\u@\h:\w\$ ", and my prompt appears as:

I have no name!@admiral:~$ 

* On startup, spruce (through glib) attempts to determine my name:

Glib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to: Permission denied.

* When exim recieves a message to send:

I have no name!@admiral:~$ telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to admiral.h.
Escape character is '^]'.
2000-02-01 11:17:49 Failed to get user name for uid 8
Connection closed by foreign host.
I have no name!@admiral:~$ 


Additional Info:

This is on a potato box running frozen as of 31 Jan 2000.

-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux admiral 2.2.14 #13 Fri Jan 7 19:14:24 PST 2000 i486
unkown

Versions of the packages libc6 depends on:
ii  ldso           1.9.11-5       The Linux dynamic linker, library and
utilit