GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id

[Sadeck]

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

[dante19992]

I am having this same problem on Julia KDE. I am using a Dell inspiron 1545

[tdockery97]

From what I have found through Google, this problem actually traces back to Plymouth.

[dante19992]

So THIS is why Plymouth was deemed unstable and not included in LMDE.

[tdockery97]

So THIS is why Plymouth was deemed unstable and not included in LMDE.

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.

[DrHu]

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!

• The system ignores it and the desktop starts anyway..

[Kendall]

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.

[Sadeck]

You guys are great thanks for the info!

[dante19992]

everytime I get that bug my computer restarts. Non-Critical my backside

[dante19992]

when I get this bug sometimes my system reboots.

[BigSteve_G]

So THIS is why Plymouth was deemed unstable and not included in LMDE.

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]

So THIS is why Plymouth was deemed unstable and not included in LMDE.

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?

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 did

[llogg]

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.

[maxfac]

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?

[AlbertP]

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.

[maxfac]

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.

[AlbertP]

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.

[Sadeck]

Does anyone know if this error has been spotted in the Release Candidate Linux Mint 11?

Kindly let me know.

Sadeck

[AlbertP]

It has been in Mint 9 and 10, but in 11 RC it's fixed.