Re: tiger reporting thousands of files with undefined groups ownership
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 01:18:03PM +, Carlos Sousa wrote: # pwck -r user news: directory /var/spool/news does not exist user uucp: directory /var/spool/uucp does not exist user majordom: directory /usr/lib/majordomo does not exist user postgres: directory /var/lib/postgres does not exist user msql: directory /var/lib/msql does not exist user list: directory /var/list does not exist user gnats: directory /var/lib/gnats/gnats-db does not exist user telnetd: directory /usr/lib/telnetd does not exist user mysql: directory /var/lib/mysql does not exist pwck: no changes Should this be there? I'm pretty sure there should be there. $ dpkg -S /var/lib/mysql mysql-server: /var/lib/mysql If you have mysql-server installed (and I bet you do since you have the 'mysql' user) then that directory might have been lost in the crash. Visual inspection of passwd and shadow doesn't help, both look OK. Yes, they might be ok. The problem is that the filesystem structure is not ok. Any more thoughts? System crash. Ouch. Javi msg07609/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: tiger reporting thousands of files with undefined groups ownership
On Sun, 3 Nov 2002 20:56:34 +0100 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 01:18:03PM +, Carlos Sousa wrote: # pwck -r user news: directory /var/spool/news does not exist user uucp: directory /var/spool/uucp does not exist user majordom: directory /usr/lib/majordomo does not exist user postgres: directory /var/lib/postgres does not exist user msql: directory /var/lib/msql does not exist user list: directory /var/list does not exist user gnats: directory /var/lib/gnats/gnats-db does not exist user telnetd: directory /usr/lib/telnetd does not exist user mysql: directory /var/lib/mysql does not exist pwck: no changes Should this be there? I'm pretty sure there should be there. $ dpkg -S /var/lib/mysql mysql-server: /var/lib/mysql Actually, the msql entry also seems suspicious: $ dpkg -S /var/lib/msql dpkg: /var/lib/msql not found. What is it doing there? I haven't mini SQL installed, I couldn't even find mini SQL in the Debian packages... Should it be safe to remove msql from passwd/shadow? If you have mysql-server installed (and I bet you do since you have the 'mysql' user) then that directory might have been lost in the crash. I shouldn't have mysql installed. $ dpkg -l 'mysql*' Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name VersionDescription +++-==-==- un mysql none (no description available) un mysql-base none (no description available) pn mysql-client none (no description available) ii mysql-common 3.23.52-2 mysql database common files (e.g. /etc/mysql un mysql-dev none (no description available) un mysql-develnone (no description available) pn mysql-doc none (no description available) pn mysql-gpl-clie none (no description available) un mysql-gpl-dev none (no description available) pn mysql-gpl-doc none (no description available) pn mysql-manual none (no description available) pn mysql-navigato none (no description available) pn mysql-server none (no description available) pn mysqltcl none (no description available) Hmm, bit of a mess here... Why do I have a few mysql packages in a Desired=Unknown state? How could I upgrade the to a Desired=Purged state? Anyway, the avalanche of files reported by tiger surely cannot be totally explained by this mysql breakage... -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tiger reporting thousands of files with undefined groups ownership
This one time, at band camp, Carlos Sousa said: On Sun, 3 Nov 2002 20:56:34 +0100 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 01:18:03PM +, Carlos Sousa wrote: # pwck -r user news: directory /var/spool/news does not exist user uucp: directory /var/spool/uucp does not exist user majordom: directory /usr/lib/majordomo does not exist user postgres: directory /var/lib/postgres does not exist user msql: directory /var/lib/msql does not exist user list: directory /var/list does not exist user gnats: directory /var/lib/gnats/gnats-db does not exist user telnetd: directory /usr/lib/telnetd does not exist user mysql: directory /var/lib/mysql does not exist pwck: no changes Should this be there? I'm pretty sure there should be there. $ dpkg -S /var/lib/mysql mysql-server: /var/lib/mysql Actually, the msql entry also seems suspicious: $ dpkg -S /var/lib/msql dpkg: /var/lib/msql not found. What is it doing there? I haven't mini SQL installed, I couldn't even find mini SQL in the Debian packages... Should it be safe to remove msql from passwd/shadow? If you have mysql-server installed (and I bet you do since you have the 'mysql' user) then that directory might have been lost in the crash. I shouldn't have mysql installed. $ dpkg -l 'mysql*' Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name VersionDescription +++-==-==- un mysql none (no description available) un mysql-base none (no description available) pn mysql-client none (no description available) ii mysql-common 3.23.52-2 mysql database common files (e.g. /etc/mysql un mysql-dev none (no description available) un mysql-develnone (no description available) pn mysql-doc none (no description available) pn mysql-gpl-clie none (no description available) un mysql-gpl-dev none (no description available) pn mysql-gpl-doc none (no description available) pn mysql-manual none (no description available) pn mysql-navigato none (no description available) pn mysql-server none (no description available) pn mysqltcl none (no description available) Hmm, bit of a mess here... Why do I have a few mysql packages in a Desired=Unknown state? How could I upgrade the to a Desired=Purged state? Anyway, the avalanche of files reported by tiger surely cannot be totally explained by this mysql breakage... 'un' means that it is not installed, and you've never tried to install it, unlike 'pn' which means that you once installed it, but later purged it. It looks like you have had a mysql server/client setup on this box at one point in the past, but the passwd/group entries for mysql were never removed, probably because you weren't removing mysql-common at the same time. None of this looks like a real problem. Sorry I can't help with your real problem, but this doesn't look like it. Steve -- Software is like sex; it's better when it's free. -- Linus Torvalds msg07613/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: tiger reporting thousands of files with undefined groups ownership
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 01:18:03PM +, Carlos Sousa wrote: # pwck -r user news: directory /var/spool/news does not exist user uucp: directory /var/spool/uucp does not exist user majordom: directory /usr/lib/majordomo does not exist user postgres: directory /var/lib/postgres does not exist user msql: directory /var/lib/msql does not exist user list: directory /var/list does not exist user gnats: directory /var/lib/gnats/gnats-db does not exist user telnetd: directory /usr/lib/telnetd does not exist user mysql: directory /var/lib/mysql does not exist pwck: no changes Should this be there? I'm pretty sure there should be there. $ dpkg -S /var/lib/mysql mysql-server: /var/lib/mysql If you have mysql-server installed (and I bet you do since you have the 'mysql' user) then that directory might have been lost in the crash. Visual inspection of passwd and shadow doesn't help, both look OK. Yes, they might be ok. The problem is that the filesystem structure is not ok. Any more thoughts? System crash. Ouch. Javi pgp0a8PdSNp9a.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: tiger reporting thousands of files with undefined groups ownership
On Sun, 3 Nov 2002 20:56:34 +0100 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 01:18:03PM +, Carlos Sousa wrote: # pwck -r user news: directory /var/spool/news does not exist user uucp: directory /var/spool/uucp does not exist user majordom: directory /usr/lib/majordomo does not exist user postgres: directory /var/lib/postgres does not exist user msql: directory /var/lib/msql does not exist user list: directory /var/list does not exist user gnats: directory /var/lib/gnats/gnats-db does not exist user telnetd: directory /usr/lib/telnetd does not exist user mysql: directory /var/lib/mysql does not exist pwck: no changes Should this be there? I'm pretty sure there should be there. $ dpkg -S /var/lib/mysql mysql-server: /var/lib/mysql Actually, the msql entry also seems suspicious: $ dpkg -S /var/lib/msql dpkg: /var/lib/msql not found. What is it doing there? I haven't mini SQL installed, I couldn't even find mini SQL in the Debian packages... Should it be safe to remove msql from passwd/shadow? If you have mysql-server installed (and I bet you do since you have the 'mysql' user) then that directory might have been lost in the crash. I shouldn't have mysql installed. $ dpkg -l 'mysql*' Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name VersionDescription +++-==-==- un mysql none (no description available) un mysql-base none (no description available) pn mysql-client none (no description available) ii mysql-common 3.23.52-2 mysql database common files (e.g. /etc/mysql un mysql-dev none (no description available) un mysql-develnone (no description available) pn mysql-doc none (no description available) pn mysql-gpl-clie none (no description available) un mysql-gpl-dev none (no description available) pn mysql-gpl-doc none (no description available) pn mysql-manual none (no description available) pn mysql-navigato none (no description available) pn mysql-server none (no description available) pn mysqltcl none (no description available) Hmm, bit of a mess here... Why do I have a few mysql packages in a Desired=Unknown state? How could I upgrade the to a Desired=Purged state? Anyway, the avalanche of files reported by tiger surely cannot be totally explained by this mysql breakage... -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/
Re: tiger reporting thousands of files with undefined groups ownership
This one time, at band camp, Carlos Sousa said: On Sun, 3 Nov 2002 20:56:34 +0100 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 01:18:03PM +, Carlos Sousa wrote: # pwck -r user news: directory /var/spool/news does not exist user uucp: directory /var/spool/uucp does not exist user majordom: directory /usr/lib/majordomo does not exist user postgres: directory /var/lib/postgres does not exist user msql: directory /var/lib/msql does not exist user list: directory /var/list does not exist user gnats: directory /var/lib/gnats/gnats-db does not exist user telnetd: directory /usr/lib/telnetd does not exist user mysql: directory /var/lib/mysql does not exist pwck: no changes Should this be there? I'm pretty sure there should be there. $ dpkg -S /var/lib/mysql mysql-server: /var/lib/mysql Actually, the msql entry also seems suspicious: $ dpkg -S /var/lib/msql dpkg: /var/lib/msql not found. What is it doing there? I haven't mini SQL installed, I couldn't even find mini SQL in the Debian packages... Should it be safe to remove msql from passwd/shadow? If you have mysql-server installed (and I bet you do since you have the 'mysql' user) then that directory might have been lost in the crash. I shouldn't have mysql installed. $ dpkg -l 'mysql*' Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name VersionDescription +++-==-==- un mysql none (no description available) un mysql-base none (no description available) pn mysql-client none (no description available) ii mysql-common 3.23.52-2 mysql database common files (e.g. /etc/mysql un mysql-dev none (no description available) un mysql-develnone (no description available) pn mysql-doc none (no description available) pn mysql-gpl-clie none (no description available) un mysql-gpl-dev none (no description available) pn mysql-gpl-doc none (no description available) pn mysql-manual none (no description available) pn mysql-navigato none (no description available) pn mysql-server none (no description available) pn mysqltcl none (no description available) Hmm, bit of a mess here... Why do I have a few mysql packages in a Desired=Unknown state? How could I upgrade the to a Desired=Purged state? Anyway, the avalanche of files reported by tiger surely cannot be totally explained by this mysql breakage... 'un' means that it is not installed, and you've never tried to install it, unlike 'pn' which means that you once installed it, but later purged it. It looks like you have had a mysql server/client setup on this box at one point in the past, but the passwd/group entries for mysql were never removed, probably because you weren't removing mysql-common at the same time. None of this looks like a real problem. Sorry I can't help with your real problem, but this doesn't look like it. Steve -- Software is like sex; it's better when it's free. -- Linus Torvalds pgpJ0UxmwPCPh.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: tiger reporting thousands of files with undefined groups ownership
Thanks for your replies. On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 15:30:43 +1300 Corrin Lakeland wrote: When was the last time you fscked the partition? Your reply had me go fsck both my partitions, / and /home. The / partition had no errors, but the /home partition had a few, which could account for about 1% of the 12187 files reported by tiger. The other 99% are still unaccounted for, though. On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 22:19:05 -0600 (CST) Mike Barushok wrote: It might be that something corrupted the /etc/passwd file in such a way that one or more entries were either not 'readable' or had a duplicate entry. You might want to try running pwck. # pwck -r user news: directory /var/spool/news does not exist user uucp: directory /var/spool/uucp does not exist user majordom: directory /usr/lib/majordomo does not exist user postgres: directory /var/lib/postgres does not exist user msql: directory /var/lib/msql does not exist user list: directory /var/list does not exist user gnats: directory /var/lib/gnats/gnats-db does not exist user telnetd: directory /usr/lib/telnetd does not exist user mysql: directory /var/lib/mysql does not exist pwck: no changes Although I'd rather not get any messages from any checking program, these seem to be harmless and unrelated to the issue. Visual inspection of passwd and shadow doesn't help, both look OK. Any more thoughts? -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: tiger reporting thousands of files with undefined groups ownership
Thanks for your replies. On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 15:30:43 +1300 Corrin Lakeland wrote: When was the last time you fscked the partition? Your reply had me go fsck both my partitions, / and /home. The / partition had no errors, but the /home partition had a few, which could account for about 1% of the 12187 files reported by tiger. The other 99% are still unaccounted for, though. On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 22:19:05 -0600 (CST) Mike Barushok wrote: It might be that something corrupted the /etc/passwd file in such a way that one or more entries were either not 'readable' or had a duplicate entry. You might want to try running pwck. # pwck -r user news: directory /var/spool/news does not exist user uucp: directory /var/spool/uucp does not exist user majordom: directory /usr/lib/majordomo does not exist user postgres: directory /var/lib/postgres does not exist user msql: directory /var/lib/msql does not exist user list: directory /var/list does not exist user gnats: directory /var/lib/gnats/gnats-db does not exist user telnetd: directory /usr/lib/telnetd does not exist user mysql: directory /var/lib/mysql does not exist pwck: no changes Although I'd rather not get any messages from any checking program, these seem to be harmless and unrelated to the issue. Visual inspection of passwd and shadow doesn't help, both look OK. Any more thoughts? -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/
