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Error message on startup

Asked by Brendan Montgomery

sometimes when I turn on my 10.04 Lucid laptop, I get the following error message on startup, then I turn it off then on again and it's gone. what does this mean and how do I fix it?

(process: 300): Glib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id (0)

thanks

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Brendan Montgomery (yugi-rocks01) said : 		#1

does anyone know what this means?

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Chris Watts (chris-candvwatts) said : 		#2

I get the same thing, also on a laptop, except that it says "process: 305" instead of "process: 300". It only happens now and then, and only at start-up. The only pseudo-random event I can think of that may cause this intermittent phenomenon is the time between my switching on the wi-fi hub and starting up. Perhaps it happens if you start up the computer when the hub is at a certain stage of its own starting up.

This is only a guess and it would take a lot of experimentation to determine whether it was the cause. One approach would be always to let the wi-fi complete its start-up before starting the computer, or vice versa, and if a few months go by without a re-occurrence, then that was probably it. The bug would still be there, but you'd have worked round it.

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RobL (rlacina) said : 		#3

Hi Brendan & Chris. Just throwing my hat into the ring regarding this issue.

I get the same issue. Happens (apparently) randomly at startup. Requires cold restart (turn laptop off, then back on) and fixes the problem. This has only been happening over the last 2 - 3 weeks. I haven't been able to find a resolution to the problem, but most references to it appear to be related to the live CD, not with already installed systems.

My system: Asus EeePC1000H, running 10.04 Netbook Edition (Actually EasyPeasy 1.6)

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