id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component resolution keywords cc fix_version see_also 597 Install lib32nss-nonlocal on amd64 somewhere andersk "{{{ debathena / lucid / andersk 17:21 (Anders Kaseorg) You should install lib32nss-nonlocal, so that 32-bit binaries don’t have problems looking up users and groups: $ python -c 'import pwd; print pwd.getpwnam(""andersk"")' pwd.struct_passwd(pw_name='andersk', pw_passwd='*', pw_uid=39270, pw_gid=101, pw_gecos='Anders Kaseorg,,,,', pw_dir='/mit/andersk', pw_shell='/bin/athena/bash') $ /mit/python/bin/python -c 'import pwd; print pwd.getpwnam(""andersk"")' Traceback (most recent call last): File """", line 1, in KeyError: 'getpwnam(): name not found: andersk' debathena / lucid / jdreed 17:22 (This zephyr does not necessarily reflect the views of IS&T, MIT, its) As Evan asked the other day, why is that not getting pulled in by anything? debathena / lucid / andersk 17:27 (Anders Kaseorg) Mostly because I didn’t find a good place for it. The dependency system doesn’t let me say “pull in lib32nss-nonlocal if libnss-nonlocal _and_ libc6-i386 are installed”. It is perhaps not unreasonable for debathena-nsswitch-config to Recommends: lib32nss-nonlocal [amd64] It’s less clear whether it should Recommends: lib64nss-nonlocal [i386] debathena / lucid / jdreed 17:28 (This zephyr does not necessarily reflect the views of IS&T, MIT, its) We should probably open a ticket }}} (Note that lib64nss-nonlocal [i386] depends libc6-amd64. I’m not sure why lib32nss-nonlocal [amd64] doesn’t depend libc6-i386. That might be another bug somewhere.)" defect closed normal Summer 2010 (Lucid Deploy) -- fixed