[Freeipa-users] acroread: unknown user id

[Sigbjorn Lie]

On Tue, February 7, 2012 12:32, Sumit Bose wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 11:49:07AM +0100, Sigbjorn Lie wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> This error occurs when starting Acrobat Reader. This occured with version 8, and I just
>> downloaded AdobeReader_enu-9.4.7-1 to see if that would make a difference. Same problem.
>>
>>
>> This is a Red Hat 5 machine running sssd-1.5.1-44.el5.
>>
>>
>> $ acroread
>>
>>
>> (acroread:3349): GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id (12345)
>>
>>
>> I'm logged on to the console of the machine, and typing "id" returns the username for my uid,
>> all my groups, etc. I have not experienced this issue with any other applications yet.
>>
>> /etc/nsswitch.conf:
>> passwd:     files sss
>> group:      files sss
>> shadow:     files sss
>>
>>
>>
>> Anyone seen this before?
>>
>
> yes, I would expect that you run a 32bit acroread on a 64bit system. You have to install the 32bit
> sssd-client packages as well.
>
> HTH
>
>

Ah, you are correct! Installing the i386 packages fixed the issue.

Perhaps the i386 rpm packages should be required by the x86_64 sssd rpm packages to avoid any such
issues?

Thanks!


Regards,
Siggi