UID is -1, can't login?

[Joshua ChaitinPollak]

On Jun 27, 2006, at 5:25 PM, Juergen Hennerich wrote:


>>
>> What would cause my uid to be -1???
>>
> The Linux kernel changed the UIDs from 16bit to 32bit a while ago.  
> Maybe you are using a kernel that uses 32bit UID per default and  
> your libc has problems hanling the 32bit UID. You can change this  
> by enabling under the kernel General Setup-> Enable 16-bit UID  
> system calls.
>
> I hope this helps.

By the time I read your message I had already recompiled and tried  
exactly what you suggested. And yes, that seems to be the problem.  
Oddly enough, it seems to have caused a problem with my nfs mount,  
now portmap says it cannot talk to server localhost, but then the  
boot continues. As far as I can tell root isn't getting mounted in  
time to run rcS now though, I'm not sure when its getting mounted.

Anyway, thanks for the help!

-Josh

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Joshua ChaitinPollak
Software Engineer
Kiva Systems