Upgrading libc6 problem
Hi all,
I just did an apt-get upgrade on my unstable powerpc machine and it
upgraded libc6.
shortly thereafter, I started getting this message in my syslog:
May 28 22:10:05 localhost inetd[2673]: getpwnam: mail: No such user
And my mail stopped being delivered. Thanks to the magic of google, I found
this message from Colin Watson:
<http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0009/msg01990.html>
Quoting:
> Going down to single-user mode and then back up to runlevel 2 seems to
> have fixed most such problems. Sending a SIGHUP to inetd, as libc6's
> postinst does via '/etc/init.d/inetd restart', is not enough - it needs
> to be stopped and started again.
So i went to runlevel 1 and then back to 2 and everything was back to
normal. Just thought I'd mention it in case it happens to anyone
else.
Vinod
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