The problem was in my /etc/nsswitch.conf
I had edited /etc/nsswitch.conf, because I am trying to get winbind going for use with Squid and I edited that file and installed fai around the same time,
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "der.hans" <
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Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 00:44:03 -0700 (MST)
To:
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Subject: Re: installed a deb package and system went belly up
> Am 06. Apr, 2004 schwätzte Jim Smith so:
>
> > The first error I got after doing "apt-get --purge remove fai" was when I
> > tried to install any package I would get the below error:
> >
> > unknown user `root' in statusoverride file
>
> This shouldn't happen. Please file a bug report. Not sure it's the fault of
> fai, but that's probably where you should file it.
>
> Look in /var/lib/dpkg. You should have statoverride and statoverride-old.
> They're probably only a couple of lines. cat them into a reply, so we can
> see what they are.
>
> Do you still have an entry for root in /etc/passwd? How about in
> /etc/shadow? ( you'll have to be root to look at the latter, so you might
> run into a chicken and egg problem ).
>
> grep ^root /etc/passwd /etc/shadow
>
> BTW, please replace the stuff between the 2nd and 3rd colon from /etc/shadow
> with <encryption_here> or something.
>
> If you can't login at all, boot with a rescue disk and look at the system
> with that. debian install CDs and Knoppix will work for this.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jim Smith" <elemint@linuxmail.org>
> > Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 07:30:08 +0800
> > To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > Subject: installed a deb package and system went belly up
> >
> > > I installed fai " Fully Automatic Installation" and once I figured out it was not what I wanted installed I did a apt-get --purge remove fai and then the system went belly up, I can not login to it at all and when it boots up the system complains about not being able to find any users or groups for example clamav will not start not will squid nor will sshd.
> > >
> > >
> > > Any Suggestions?
> > >
> > > Jim
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