Re: User/Group Problem

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>]

On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 11:06:10AM +0000, Ian Chilton wrote:

> I am building a Linux system on an SGI I2 (MIPS) with glibc 2.2
> 
> I am having the following problem....any ideas?
> 
> bash-2.04# chown root test.c 
> chown: root: invalid user
> 
> bash-2.04# chgrp root test.c 
> chgrp: invalid group name `root'

Two possible reasons:

 - your /etc/nsswitch.conf is broken
 - your chown / chgrp binaries are statically linked.  In that case nss
   won't work on MIPS until it's fixed ...

  Ralf