unknown user: root

[Andy Green]

Marian POPESCU wrote:

> nothing; whoami says "cannot find name for user ID 0"; mc will crash as

> Is still there hope for me?

I think I would bust out strace

strace -o /tmp/dump whoami

and then

less /tmp/dump

with an eye on the last operations it did which made it believe there 
was a problem and it should abort.  I would also be looking in logs I guess.

-Andy
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