[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#793745: Bug#793745: ntp fails to start

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 07:34:10PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
>   Jul 26 19:23:54 hysteria ntpd[15301]: Cannot find user ID 109
> 
>   $ grep 109 /etc/passwd
>   ntp:x:109:116::/home/ntp:/bin/false
> 
>   $ grep 116 /etc/group
>   ntp:x:116:

The call to getpwuid() failed.  So I think there is something
broken on your system.  Can you try to look at your nss
configuration, like the other user reported?  Does:
"getent passwd 109" work?

Everything of course works for me, I've been running it for a
while now.


Kurt