RE: mc segfaults

2003-06-06 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > This may be a Cygwin-specific problem. On Cygwin, /etc/passwd doesn't > play as key a role as it does on other Unix systems (e.g., it's not > required for logging in on the console). Thus, it's quite possible that > someone will attempt to run other

RE: mc segfaults

2003-06-06 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Pavel Tsekov wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > [snip] > > > Okay, Ronald, you're suffering from the UID wrapping problem. Cygwin UIDs > > are currently 16 bit, so any number higher than 65535 will get wrapped > > (and did). You can change your UID to a

RE: mc segfaults

2003-06-06 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Pavel, > > This may be a Cygwin-specific problem. On Cygwin, /etc/passwd doesn't > play as key a role as it does on other Unix systems (e.g., it's not > required for logging in on the console). Thus, it's quite possible that > someone will attempt

RE: mc segfaults

2003-06-06 Thread FischRon . external
>On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> >> Starting mc or mcedit causes the following assertion violation: >> >> >> >> ** CRITICAL **: file /tmp/build/mc-4.6.0/src/utilunix.c: line 81 >> >> (init_groups): >> >> assertion `pwd != NULL' failed. >> >> Segmentation fault (core dumped) >Okay,

RE: mc segfaults

2003-06-06 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: [snip] > > >, etc. Do the files > > >/etc/passwd and /etc/group exist on your system ? > > > > Yes, but /etc/passwd is somewhat strange, in that my user > > id (i.e. what is returned by 'id -u') does not match the > > respective entry in /etc/passwd: >

RE: mc segfaults

2003-06-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Starting mc or mcedit causes the following assertion violation: > >> > >> ** CRITICAL **: file /tmp/build/mc-4.6.0/src/utilunix.c: line 81 > >> (init_groups): > >> assertion `pwd != NULL' failed. > >> Segmentation fault (core dumped) > > > >Hello, >

RE: mc segfaults

2003-06-05 Thread FischRon . external
>> Starting mc or mcedit causes the following assertion violation: >> >> ** CRITICAL **: file /tmp/build/mc-4.6.0/src/utilunix.c: line 81 >> (init_groups): >> assertion `pwd != NULL' failed. >> Segmentation fault (core dumped) > >Hello, > >As far I as I can tell this error message suggests that >s