Running faillog -a reports error "faillog: Failed to get the entry for UID XXXX"

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Issue

while typing "faillog -a" we get below error

faillog: Failed to get the entry for UID 838159
faillog: Failed to get the entry for UID 112536
faillog: Failed to get the entry for UID 146226

Environment

* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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