installed fai and Debian went belly up

Jim Smith elemint at linuxmail.org
Tue Apr 6 13:25:56 CEST 2004


I have Debain Sid installed and I have apt configured for unstable.


Jim


----- Original Message -----
From: Holger Levsen <hl at hbt.de>
Date: 06 Apr 2004 11:32:49 +0200
To: Jim Smith <elemint at linuxmail.org>
Subject: Re: installed fai and Debian went belly up

> Hi,
> 
> I feel sorry for you but have no idea how and why this happened. What
> debian version (woody, sarge, sid) and what fai version do you use ?
> 
> 
> regards,
> 	Holger
> 
> On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 02:00, Jim Smith wrote:
> > I installed fai and once I figured out it was not what I wanted installed I did a apt-get
> > --purge remove fai and then the system went belly up, I can not login
> > to it at all and when it boots up the system complains about not
> > being able to find any users or groups for example clamav will not
> > start not will squid nor will sshd.
> > 
> > 
> > The first error I got after uninstalled fai was when I would try to
> > install any package and I would get " unknown user `root' in
> > statusoverride file
> > " unknown user `root' in statusoverride file"
> > 
> > 
> > Any Suggestions?
> > 
> > Jim
> > 
> >  
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