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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Ian Chilton <ian@ichilton.co.uk>
Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com, lfs-discuss@linuxfromscratch.org
Subject: Re: User/Group Problem
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 05:01:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001108050158.B12999@bacchus.dhis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001107110610.A8074@woody.ichilton.co.uk>; from mailinglist@ichilton.co.uk on Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 11:06:10AM +0000

On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 11:06:10AM +0000, Ian Chilton wrote:

> I am building a Linux system on an SGI I2 (MIPS) with glibc 2.2
> 
> I am having the following problem....any ideas?
> 
> bash-2.04# chown root test.c 
> chown: root: invalid user
> 
> bash-2.04# chgrp root test.c 
> chgrp: invalid group name `root'

Two possible reasons:

 - your /etc/nsswitch.conf is broken
 - your chown / chgrp binaries are statically linked.  In that case nss
   won't work on MIPS until it's fixed ...

  Ralf

  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-08 12:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-07 11:06 User/Group Problem Ian Chilton
2000-11-08  4:01 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2000-11-13 19:02   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2000-11-13 20:02     ` Ian Chilton
2000-11-13 20:02       ` Ian Chilton
2000-11-13 22:19     ` Ralf Baechle
2000-11-14 14:19       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2000-11-15  7:52         ` Ralf Baechle
2000-11-16 12:13           ` Maciej W. Rozycki

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