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

[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.