GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id
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GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id
I get this error when shutting down and booting Linux Mint 10.
GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id (0)
Is this error serious, will it get worse and how do I get rid of it?
Hardware I am using:
Intel Pentium Dual Core 2.0GHZ T4200 HP Pavillion Laptop DV6-1225EI
ATI RADEON HD4530 graphics card with 512MB dedicated and 1750MB shared
320GB HARDRIVE
4GB RAM
WIFI
BLUETOOTH
HDMI
5-1 DIGITAL MEDIA READER
Thanks in advance.
Sadeck
GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id (0)
Is this error serious, will it get worse and how do I get rid of it?
Hardware I am using:
Intel Pentium Dual Core 2.0GHZ T4200 HP Pavillion Laptop DV6-1225EI
ATI RADEON HD4530 graphics card with 512MB dedicated and 1750MB shared
320GB HARDRIVE
4GB RAM
WIFI
BLUETOOTH
HDMI
5-1 DIGITAL MEDIA READER
Thanks in advance.
Sadeck
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Re: GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown use
I am having this same problem on Julia KDE. I am using a Dell inspiron 1545
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Re: GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown use
From what I have found through Google, this problem actually traces back to Plymouth.
Mint Cinnamon 20.1
Re: GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown use
So THIS is why Plymouth was deemed unstable and not included in LMDE.
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Re: GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown use
Exactly. If you wade through the huge number of posts in the Ubuntu forums that are referenced in a Google search, there is a patch that will supposedly fix the warning message.dante19992 wrote:So THIS is why Plymouth was deemed unstable and not included in LMDE.
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Re: GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown use
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1443231
http://art.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10134586
Same error was in previous releases, so they (Ubuntu) haven't fixed it yet, OH well!
http://art.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10134586
Same error was in previous releases, so they (Ubuntu) haven't fixed it yet, OH well!
- The system ignores it and the desktop starts anyway..
Re: GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown use
It's non-critical and hasn't caused any issues for either of the editions I build here, or for Pepeprmint. Remember that it's just a warning, and warnings don't mean anything is "wrong" per se. From my early looking, it appears the warning is present in the 11.04 builds as well.
Re: GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown use
You guys are great thanks for the info!
Re: GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown use
everytime I get that bug my computer restarts. Non-Critical my backside
GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed, Is critical
when I get this bug sometimes my system reboots.
Re: GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown use
So are the packages used in LMDE more stable then the ones in Ubuntu based Mint? because I thought the packages were from the Romeo repository & so things were the other way around?dante19992 wrote:So THIS is why Plymouth was deemed unstable and not included in LMDE.
Re: GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown use
I believe most of your LMDE packages (if not all of them) come from debian repositories. I havn't used LMDE in a while but that was how it was when I didBigSteve_G wrote:So are the packages used in LMDE more stable then the ones in Ubuntu based Mint? because I thought the packages were from the Romeo repository & so things were the other way around?dante19992 wrote:So THIS is why Plymouth was deemed unstable and not included in LMDE.
Re: GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown use
Forcing the install of the latest version of plymouth for ubuntu solved the issue for at least one mint user:
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=64980
I haven't done it because it simply slows down the recovery from sleep and has never caused a reboot or freeze, and I'm afraid forcing the install of ubuntu's plymouth version might have unintended consequences.
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=64980
I haven't done it because it simply slows down the recovery from sleep and has never caused a reboot or freeze, and I'm afraid forcing the install of ubuntu's plymouth version might have unintended consequences.
Re: GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown use
Same issue here. I am using:
Julia
Samsung N210 - Intel GMA 3150.
The message can be seen during shutdown and when resume from suspend. I was so annoyed that I clean reinstalled 3 times (from Live USB) and burnt it 'fresh' on USB everytime through unetbootin - Still no luck.
It seems the warning message doesn't affect some people though. And sudo dpkg-reconfigure plymouth didn't seem to do anything either....
Must be someone out there who knows what is going on?
Julia
Samsung N210 - Intel GMA 3150.
The message can be seen during shutdown and when resume from suspend. I was so annoyed that I clean reinstalled 3 times (from Live USB) and burnt it 'fresh' on USB everytime through unetbootin - Still no luck.
It seems the warning message doesn't affect some people though. And sudo dpkg-reconfigure plymouth didn't seem to do anything either....
Must be someone out there who knows what is going on?
Re: GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown use
It's a bug in the Plymouth boot splash (the Linux Mint logo during boot). You can disable Plymouth by replacing 'splash' with 'nosplash' in /etc/default/grub in the CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT line, and then turning off splash in Startup Manager (somewhere in the menu). You will get a boot screen without Mint logo, just some text you possibly won't understand, but it works.
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Re: GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown use
AlberP >
Thanks a lot. It did solve the problem. What I did was just to remove 'quiet splash' as this is = 'nosplash'. The Glib warning is no longer there. I wonder if there is an update for linux mint. As I understood it, the Ubuntu users have similar issues, and a fix update has been released, here > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pl ... 2ubuntu5.1
I am tempted to apply that update but don't want to end up having Ubuntu splash screen.
Thanks a lot. It did solve the problem. What I did was just to remove 'quiet splash' as this is = 'nosplash'. The Glib warning is no longer there. I wonder if there is an update for linux mint. As I understood it, the Ubuntu users have similar issues, and a fix update has been released, here > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pl ... 2ubuntu5.1
I am tempted to apply that update but don't want to end up having Ubuntu splash screen.
Re: GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown use
You won't get an Ubuntu screen: the screen is not in the 'plymouth' package but in a seperate one, which does not get changed with the fix you gave.
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Re: GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown use
Does anyone know if this error has been spotted in the Release Candidate Linux Mint 11?
Kindly let me know.
Sadeck
Kindly let me know.
Sadeck
Re: GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown use
It has been in Mint 9 and 10, but in 11 RC it's fixed.
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