On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 05:22:00PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > 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. > > /etc/init.d/inetd restart > > wouldn't do?
Actually, you're right - it should do. I should have tried that first, but I just went for the big hammer. The problem (I think) is that the libc6 postinst script calls /etc/init.d/inetd restart before some other important piece is upgraded. At least, that's what I gather from reading the rest of the thread I referenced above. Vinod -- _____________________________ Vinod Kurup, MD email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 617.277.2012 cell: 617.359.5990 http://www.kurup.com aim: vvkurup
