installed fai and Debian went belly up

[Holger Levsen]

Hi Jim,

thank you for your confirmation that this wasn't a FAI problem - that's
why I cc: my answer to the list.


Regards,
	Holger

On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 20:00, Jim Smith wrote:
> The problem was in /etc/nsswitch.conf
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> I had edited /etc/nsswitch.conf, because I am trying to
> get winbind going for use with Squid and I edited that file and
> installed fai around the same time, 
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> Jim
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> ----- 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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