[Condor-users] machine suddenly can't find username

[Dave Schneider <daves@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I have an installation of Condor 6.8.0 running under SuSE-Linux 10.1.  
Everything had been going well, until I noticed today that condor wasn't 
running on my central manager.  I tried to restart it, but am seeing 
errors like this in the log. 

11/17 23:51:01 ERROR: can't find username of current user! BEWARE: 
$(USERNAME) will be undefined

11/17 23:51:01 passwd_cache::cache_uid(): getpwnam("condor") failed: Success

11/17 23:51:01 passwd_cache::cache_uid(): getpwnam("condor") failed: 
Success

11/17 23:51:01 ******************************
************************
11/17 23:51:02 ** condor_master (CONDOR_MASTER) STARTING UP
11/17 23:51:02 ** /home/condor/condor/sbin/condor_master
11/17 23:51:02 ** $CondorVersion: 6.8.0 Jul 19 2006 $
11/17 23:51:02 ** $CondorPlatform: I386-LINUX_RHEL3 $
11/17 23:51:02 ** PID = 30849
11/17 23:51:02 ** Log last touched 11/17 22:46:35
11/17 23:51:02 ******************************************************
11/17 23:51:02 Using config source: /home/condor/condor_config
11/17 23:51:02 Using local config sources:
11/17 23:51:02    /home/condor/hosts/george/condor_config.local
11/17 23:51:02 DaemonCore: Command Socket at < 207.207.8.148:55659 
<http://207.207.8.148:55659>>
11/17 23:51:02 ERROR "default_daemon_name() returned NULL" at line 934 
in file master.C



It had been working great on this machine before, and nothing about the 
machine changed that I know of.  Does anyone have any ideas about what 
might be going on?  I assume that the system call to find the username 
is failing (I have a couple of other machines I've never been able to 
get condor to run on that show similar errors in their logs), but I 
don't know what the system call might be, since the source isn't readily 
accessible.

Thanks,

Dave Schneider