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Can anyone help with my latest problem, 65 updates came through today and after rebooting I now have this message in Terminal.

groups: cannot find name for group ID 127

I've done a cat /etc/group

and there isn't a group 127 listed.

But I've found it in the group- list

Entry
vboxusers:x:127:peter
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If this was a clean install and not an upgrade, something went badly wrong with it. Yes there have been a fair few updates as always with a new release, but nothing like your problem seems to be happening. Please give more information about your installation. Is it a clean install of the only OS on your drive? If not, ask another question describing how you installed.

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It was a completely clean install after an upgrade from Ubuntu 11.10 went completely wrong and I ended up with just a command prompt and now unity desktop at all. But I think after researching around this was my fault as I didn't uninstall the ATI graphics drivers before doing the upgrade. But this latest problem has resolved itself as suddenly the "group" message in the terminal has disappeared! I don't know how or why but it's gone. – Peter May 4 '12 at 20:24
Great. Glad it's sorted. Would be interesting to know what happened but I'll bear it in mind if I hear of that again. Thanks. – barrydrake May 5 '12 at 8:57

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