Help with linux error

[delfinnium]

My linux is doing something strange -

Currently I have linux mint 9 (i'm not sure which version it is), and i don't think i did any updates or anything, but recently, it suddenly started showing this error and hanging:

Process: 291 GLib-warning **: get pwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id(0)

It first started last week, and then today it happened at least twice. Will I have to update my linux to Linux Mint 10?

:(

Comments

[jewelfox]

There is apparently a bug report on Launchpad about this. Someone on Ask Ubuntu says it's a rather generic error and hard to diagnose.

Sorry that I couldn't be of more help. :\

[delfinnium]

*cries* so what am I supposed to do? I will probably have to upgrade to Linux Mint 10? Or should I just reinstall Linux mint 9?

[jewelfox]

*patpats*

When did the problem start? Where does it hang? Have you asked on the Linux Mint forums, the Ubuntu forums, or Ask Ubuntu for help?

You could try upgrading maybe, although you seem distressed about the thought of having to.

[delfinnium]

Thanks for the advice! I decided to reinstall linux mint 9, not upgrade it. According to the Ubuntu forums I'd looked through, it all seemed to be a problem with linux Mint 10 especially, and I prefer the look of LM9. So... I'm sticking with it.

I guess I just won't let it update and not install too many things.

[jewelfox]

Okay ... sorry about that. ._. Better luck to you this time.

[delfinnium]

Hey no problem. :)

[aphenine]

This might be worth a thought.

All Linux user information is taken from a bunch of files in /etc (user, group, etc). Maybe some other program wrote something into one of them that's causing the Glib error every time it tries to parse it. Why don't you try opening up the files and seeing what's happening to them?

[delfinnium]

I'm not sure wwhat to do about that, because I wouldn't know what to check?

And in the end I decided to reinstall my linux mint 9 version from my liveCD. It seems to work properly now.

I guess. Hopefully it won't try to update or something.