on 08/04/2012 09:48 Bernhard Fröhlich said the following: > On Sa., 7. Apr. 2012 21:55:37 CEST, Scott Ballantyne <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Just for your information... >> >> This is a new install on Freebsd 9.0. >> >> I kept running afoul of 'pw' errors. The install bailed saying >> >>> Creating group `vboxusers' with gid `920'. >>> Creating user `vboxusers' with uid `920'. >>> pw: user 'vboxusers' disappeared during update >>> *** Error code 67 >> >> but checking the /etc/group and /etc/master.passwd and /etc/passwd >> files showed that both were created. >> >> So I continued the build, ending with: >> >>> ===> Installing for virtualbox-ose-4.1.10 >>> ===> Generating temporary packing list >>> ===> Checking if emulators/virtualbox-ose already installed >>> ===> Creating users and/or groups. >>> Using existing group `vboxusers'. >>> Creating user `vboxusers' with uid `920'. >>> pw: user 'vboxusers' already exists >>> *** Error code 74 >>> >>> Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose. >>> *** Error code 1 >> >>> Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose. >> >> Simply removing the vboxusers user allowed the build to complete. >> >> Thanks for virtualbox - I'm looking forward to using it. > > That just means you messed up your shadow password database. pwd_mkdb is what > you need.
This looks more like a nscd bug. -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
