Vinod Kurup wrote: > I just did an apt-get upgrade on my unstable powerpc machine and it > upgraded libc6. > > shortly thereafter, I started getting this message in my syslog: > > May 28 22:10:05 localhost inetd[2673]: getpwnam: mail: No such user > > And my mail stopped being delivered. Thanks to the magic of google, I found > this message from Colin Watson: > > <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0009/msg01990.html> > > Quoting: > > > Going down to single-user mode and then back up to runlevel 2 seems to > > have fixed most such problems. Sending a SIGHUP to inetd, as libc6's > > postinst does via '/etc/init.d/inetd restart', is not enough - it needs > > to be stopped and started again. > > So i went to runlevel 1 and then back to 2 and everything was back to > normal. Just thought I'd mention it in case it happens to anyone > else.
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