If tl-initgroups can't find the requested user, it outputs an error message. vsmserver expects a list of GIDs from this process, and tracebacks if it doesn't get one: 2011-01-10 17:23:51 ERROR vsmserver.extcmd: Unhandled exception getting list of groups for cendio: <type 'exceptions.ValueError'> invalid literal for int() with base 10: '' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/thinlinc/modules/thinlinc/vsm/async.py", line 110, in oo0 obj . handle_read_event ( fd ) File "/opt/thinlinc/modules/thinlinc/vsm/extproc.py", line 312, in handle_read_event self . handle_close ( fd ) File "/opt/thinlinc/modules/thinlinc/vsm/extproc.py", line 285, in handle_close self . handle_exit ( ) File "/opt/thinlinc/modules/thinlinc/vsm/extproc.py", line 443, in handle_exit gidnumbers = [ int ( gidNumber ) for gidNumber in self . stdout_data . strip ( ) . split ( " " ) ] ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '' . 2011-01-10 17:23:51 WARNING vsmserver.extproc: ['/opt/thinlinc/libexec/tl-initgroups', u'cendio'] wrote to stderr: no such user: cendio
This issue has been addressed and fixed in Bug 8232 comment 11.