On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Roberto Mello <roberto.mello@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  It's as if the users in /etc/passwd are not recognized by the system
>  for a bit. I can't "su - someotheruser" for example. After a few
>  minutes, everything works, but I have to figure this out because
>  Apache, for example, refuses to start because its www-data user just
>  doesn't work as soon as the VE starts up.
>
>  Anyone have a clue what's going on here?

Here's the syslog from the VE, when I recently had to restart the HN:

Apr 16 23:18:07 ralph1 shutdown[27780]: shutting down for system halt
Apr 16 23:18:07 ralph1 init: Switching to runlevel: 0
Apr 16 23:18:08 ralph1 kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.
Apr 16 23:18:08 ralph1 kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating.
Apr 16 23:18:09 ralph1 exiting on signal 15
Apr 16 23:29:33 ralph1 syslogd 1.5.0#2: restart.
Apr 16 23:29:33 ralph1 kernel: klogd 1.5.0#2, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Apr 16 23:29:35 ralph1 atd: Cannot get uid for daemon: Unknown error 530
Apr 16 23:29:35 ralph1 /usr/sbin/cron[16207]: (CRON) INFO (pidfile fd = 3)
Apr 16 23:29:36 ralph1 /usr/sbin/cron[16208]: (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok)
Apr 16 23:29:36 ralph1 cron[16208]: Error: bad username; while reading
/etc/crontab
Apr 16 23:29:36 ralph1 cron[16208]: Error: bad username; while reading
/etc/cron.d/php5
Apr 16 23:29:36 ralph1 /usr/sbin/cron[16208]: (CRON) INFO (Running @reboot jobs)
Apr 16 23:29:39 ralph1 init: no more processes left in this runlevel

Notice the error messages regarding uid's and usernames. This lasts
for a few minutes and then everything starts working normally without
any intervention of mine. I'm at a loss.

Roberto