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plymouth package

  1. Bug #532984
  2. Comment #28

Comment 28 for bug 532984

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Tom Jaeger (thjaeger) wrote : Re: [Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot, with (process 239): GLib-WARNING **: getpwid_r(): failed due to unknown user id (0), on HP Compaq Pentium 4

There is still the issue of the actual error message, which certainly
shouldn't appear on the user's screen. Is this bug tracked anywhere?

On 04/18/2010 06:09 PM, Steve Langasek wrote:
> The getpwuid_r() message is a generic warning that is displayed for all
> users, but is usually hidden by the splash screen. It is not the
> *cause* of any hangs or failures to display the splash screen, so keying
> on this for a bug report is not useful.