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Re: Aptitude extended state file



On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:

> I think this problem may have something to do with NFS.  My home partition
> on this machine is NFS-mounted, and I use NIS to get user account info.  
> When I create a test user on the NIS/NFS server, aptitude gives the same
> warning message for him on the client machine.  So does a locally created
> user on the client whose home directory is on the NFS mount.  But a user
> created locally on the client, with a home directory outside /home, does
> not get the warning.

Ah, just saw this bug report that explains everything!
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=146485

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Kevin McCarty                Physics Department
kmccarty@princeton.edu       Princeton University
www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty  Princeton, NJ 08544


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