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Bug 173942

Summary:	installer cannot create rpcuser
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Charles Lacroix <chuck>
Component:	nfs-utils	Assignee:	Steve Dickson <steved>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Version:	4.0	CC:	pjones
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Description Charles Lacroix 2005-11-22 20:49:42 UTC

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Description of problem:
I get this in my install.log once i finish installing RHEL4

Installing nfs-utils-1.0.6-65.EL4.i386.
warning: user rpcuser does not exist - using root
warning: group rpcuser does not exist - using root

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
nfs-utils

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install fresh machine
2. Look into /root/install.log
3.
  

Additional info:

Not sure what this will cause for problem, nothing apparent upto today but i just wanted to make sure it's not a something that will cause me problems in the futur.

Comment 2 Steve Dickson 2006-04-29 15:56:43 UTC

Hmm... installing the nfs-utils by hand does not cause this
warning... I wonder if there is already a user id of 29 when
the nfs-utils is installed... I really don't think uid of 29
is all that magical...

Comment 3 Steve Dickson 2006-05-04 11:40:43 UTC

I'm not able to reproduce this problem. Please
re-open this bug if this becomes a reproducible
problem.