FPM initialization failed

#PHP settings.
#Default version of PHP is always php1_release. Possible values for php1/php2_release: 5.3, 5.4, no. php1/php2_mode: mod_php, ph$
php1_release=5.3
php2_release=5.4
php1_mode=suphp
php2_mode=php-fpm
php_ini=yes
#Possible values - production or development
php_ini_type=production
ioncube=no
zend=yes

webserver=apache

#Possible value: 2.4
apache_ver=2.4
mod_ruid2=yes
secure_htaccess=no
harden-symlinks-patch=yes

[root@server1 custombuild]# service php-fpm54 restart
Gracefully shutting down php-fpm54: /etc/init.d/php-fpm54: line 78: kill: (31186) - No such process
................................... failed. Use force-quit
Starting php-fpm54: [16-Jan-2013 18:40:54] ERROR: [pool user] cannot get uid for user 'user'
[16-Jan-2013 18:40:54] ERROR: FPM initialization failed

grep ^user: /etc/passwd

the Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit if necessary.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteRule    ^$ app/webroot/    [L]
   RewriteRule    (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteRule    ^$    webroot/    [L]
   RewriteRule    (.*) webroot/$1    [L]
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/fastcgiphp54

# Global PHP-FPM rewrite rules.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/fastcgiphp54
  RewriteRule ^ - [L]
</IfModule>