unknown user: root

[Marian POPESCU]

Andy Green wrote:

> Marian POPESCU wrote:
> 
>> nothing; whoami says "cannot find name for user ID 0"; mc will crash as
> 
>> Is still there hope for me?
> 
> I think I would bust out strace
> 
> strace -o /tmp/dump whoami
> 
> and then
> 
> less /tmp/dump
> 
> with an eye on the last operations it did which made it believe there
> was a problem and it should abort.  I would also be looking in logs I
> guess.
> 
> -Andy

Thank you again!

I will do this tomorrow morning when I'll be in the office again.

Can I bother you with this any longer?