[cobalt-users] [Qube2]Wierd Login prompt (I have no name!@machine)

["Colin J. Raven" <cjraven@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Gang!!
A strange and unusual event happened on a Qube2. The shell login prompt
has changed from [user@machine]$
to
[I have no name!@machine username]$


doing a "whoami" from the prompt produces the following:
[I have no name!@machine username]$ whoami
whoami: cannot find username for UID 112

When the user attempts to start pine he also sees the following:
[I have no name!@machine username]$ pine
Who are you? (Unable to look up login name)

The user can login succcessfully, can su to root successfully (this is a
trusted user) but keeps getting the message above. Nothing seems broken.
In /etc/profile and all .bash_profile files the shell prompt PS1 string
has been commented out, but of course this has no effect.


Has anyone ever encountered this behavior before? A search of the
archives drew a *complete* blank on this one.

Regards to all,
-Colin
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Colin J. Raven