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From: FischRon DOT external AT infineon DOT com
To: ptsekov AT gmx DOT net, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Message-ID: <9843A649BAD7FB4686F6FCBC840D600E08036A2D@mucse001.eu.infineon.com>
Subject: RE: mc segfaults
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 13:30:56 +0200 
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>> Starting mc or mcedit causes the following assertion violation:
>>
>> ** CRITICAL **: file /tmp/build/mc-4.6.0/src/utilunix.c: line 81
>> (init_groups):
>> assertion `pwd != NULL' failed.
>> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
>Hello,
>
>As far I as I can tell this error message suggests that 
>something with you
>system is not OK. Would you please give more details about you 
>environment 
>- windows version

Windows 2000

>, cygwin version (uname -a)

CYGWIN_NT-5.0 mucw0291 1.3.22(0.78/3/2) 2003-03-18 09:20 i686 unknown
unknown Cygwin

>, etc. Do the files 
>/etc/passwd and /etc/group exist on your system ?

Yes, but /etc/passwd is somewhat strange, in that my user
id (i.e. what is returned by 'id -u') does not match the
respective entry in /etc/passwd:

$ id -u
56297

$ grep -c 56297 /etc/passwd
0

There *is* an entry in /etc/passwd corresponding to my 
Windows account, but it has user id 121833.

Ronald

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