Re: Panick after Potato -> Testing upgrade

[Erik van der Meulen <e.van.der.meulen@avondel.nl>]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 22:06:46 -0500, Joey Hess wrote:

> >   Feb 21 01:06:30 souterrain inetd[3638]: getpwnam: root: No such user
> >   Feb 21 00:45:02 souterrain inetd[159]: /usr/sbin/tcpd: exit status 0x1
> >   Feb 21 00:45:02 souterrain inetd[1240]: getpwnam: backup: No such user

> That's trying to look up users in your /etc/passwd file. getpwnam for
> root failing is very strange, I suggest you make sure your /etc/passwd
> is not messed up.

Thanks for that. It turned out that my password file was okay. Your
suggestion did make me think in a different direction. A restart of
'inetd' did solve my problem.
Not sure now if this can be seen as an omission in the upgrade process
and therefore a bug?

Thanks again & best regards!

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  Erik van der Meulen <e.van.der.meulen@avondel.nl>