Hi,
Some of the feedback on the Ubuntu bugs I raised related to Clive's
issue with the graphical login prompt, gdm, sometimes not starting have
suggested some Ubuntu installations don't have a group called root
defined. IOW, /etc/group doesn't contain a line similar to
root:x:0:
This causes commands like `chown root:root ...' to not go to well.
As a bit of a random sample, could folks send me the pasted output of
these three commands from their various systems, even non-Ubuntu,
non-Linux ones.
uname -a
lsb_release -a
awk -F: '$1 == "root" || $3 ~ /^0*$/ {print NR, $0}' /etc/group
If a command gives errors, don't worry, just paste it all back to me.
Sample output for here is
$ uname -a
Linux blake 2.6.24-28-generic #1 SMP Wed Aug 25 15:25:41 UTC 2010 i686
GNU/Linux
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS
Release: 8.04
Codename: hardy
$ awk -F: '$1 == "root" || $3 ~ /^0*$/ {print NR, $0}' /etc/group
1 root:x:0:
$
Probably best to send off-list unless you've something to add to the
conversation to cut down the noise on the list.
Cheers,
Ralph.
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