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
next prev parent 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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