Problem Starting kernel log daemon

[pete-the-meat]

Hi there.

When booting my system it hangs after it tries to start the kernel log daemon. The text on the screen is as follows:


chown: invalid group: `root:tty'
chgrp: invalid group: `adm'
chown: invalid group: `polkituser:polkituser'
FATAL: Error inserting battery (/lib/modules/2.6.24-19-rt/kernel/drivers/acpi/battery.ko): No such device
* Starting systen log daemon...
chown: invalid group: `syslog:adm'
chown: invalid group: `syslog:adm'
chown: invalid group: `syslog:adm'
chown: invalid group: `syslog:adm'
chown: invalid group: `syslog:adm'
chown: invalid group: `syslog:adm'
chown: invalid group: `syslog:adm'
chown: invalid group: `syslog:adm'
chown: invalid group: `syslog:adm'
chown: invalid group: `syslog:adm'
chown: invalid group: `syslog:adm'
chown: invalid group: `syslog:adm'
chown: invalid group: `syslog:adm'

* Doing wacom setup...
* Starting kernel log daemon...
chown: invalid group: `klog:klog'
chown: invalid group: `klog:klog'

By the time I'd typed all that out it had moved on and tried to boot, then I got a screen telling me something about the fact that there was no gdm group and dropped me into tty1.

I had a look at /etc/group and it only contains one line:

nogroup:x:65534 - I'm sure this isn't correct and that this file should contain lots of stuff. I'm thinking the only way to recover from this is to copy across the /etc/group from the livecd but I thought I'd check here first to see if there's was a hotfix for this problem - google didn't come up with anything useful. Is this right?

Many thanks :)

[pete-the-meat]

In case anyone else get's this problem and is stumped using the /etc/group generated by the livecd works just fine - although I guess if you have customised the groups you'll need to re-do those additions.

[I hope this isn't a complete waste of a thread - maybe someone will benefit from it :)]

[akash87]

dint help :(
there seems to be a problem with the gdm also!!