On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 12:14:10PM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote: > > I can't see any way that installkernel would lead to the complaint > about the ntpd user not existing; that check is tied to the > installworld target. > My mistake. I was sleepy and in a hurry. The error message was in installworld and my attempt to adduser ntpd concluded with an error: Locked : yes OK? (yes/no): yes pw: Bad id 'ntpd': invalid adduser: ERROR: There was an error adding user (ntpd). On reboot the old ntpd set the clock and I thought all was well.
The failure is a little surprising, is ntpd a reserved name? The machine is re-running buildworld/installworld from a clean start, so presumably it'll halt over the same error again. When that happens, what's the simplest way to recover? Mergemaster is a big hammer, something less comprehensive might suffice, even manual editing of files. There's minimal customization on the machine, basically /etc/fstab, /etc/rc.conf and /etc/passwd. Nothing else of real value, so if I kill it in the attempt it won't be a disaster. Thanks for waking me to my blunder... bob prohaska _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
