[Freeipa-users] Acrobat Reader errors on Centos 5.8 (getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id)

[Simo Sorce]

On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 06:49 +0400, freeipa at noboost.org wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Acrobat reader & Firefox won't load on Centos 5.8 (odd)
> 
> Server:
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.2 (Santiago)
> - ipa-admintools-2.1.3-9.el6.x86_64
> - ipa-client-2.1.3-9.el6.x86_64
> - ipa-pki-ca-theme-9.0.3-7.el6.noarch
> - ipa-pki-common-theme-9.0.3-7.el6.noarch
> - ipa-python-2.1.3-9.el6.x86_64
> - ipa-server-2.1.3-9.el6.x86_64
> - ipa-server-selinux-2.1.3-9.el6.x86_64
> 
> Client:
> - ipa-client-2.1.3-1.el5
> 
> 
> Since installing the ipa-client and configuring with central auth, one
> of our Centos 5.8 clients won't start up firefox or acrobat reader. 
> 
> 
> Acrobat Error:
> * With IPA configured
> [craig at mypc ~]$ id
> uid=366(craig) gid=132(corp)
> groups=132(corp),721000000(admins),721000001(ipausers)
> 
> [craig at mypc ~]$ acroread 
> (acroread:12739): GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown
> user id (366)
> 
> 
> Firefox Error:
> Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that
> you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS
> locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/
> for information. (Details -  1: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-somebody/lock/ior'
> not opened successfully, no gconfd located: Permission denied 2: IOR
> file '/tmp/gconfd-somebody/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd
> located: Permission denied)
> 
> 
> Troubeshooting:
> 1) If I then simply add my user into the /etc/passwd file the program works
> perfectly. 
> 
> 2)firefox
> I managed to wip up a workaround for this one by creating a symlink:
> $ mkdir /tmp/gconfd-somebody/lock
> $ cd /tmp/gconfd-somebody
> $ ln -s /tmp/gconfd-craig/lock/ior

I am going to assume you are using 32bit versions of Adobe Acrobat and
Firefox. In this case you need to install also the 32bit version of the
sssd-client package.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York