On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Antonio Olivares <olivares14...@gmail.com> wrote: > On one of my machines, > While running > # portmaster -tf xfce-4.10 >>> > > I get a major error and everything comes to a screeching halt :( > > I get a bad gid on my own username and last line I see is > > pwd_mkdb: /mnt/etc/master.passwd: Inappropriate file type or format > > How can I get around this? > Googling I find: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-November/208310.html > > but the advice there does not help :( > > I wonder what has happened and how I can fix it, if there is something > to try out? > > Thanks && Best Regards, > > > Antonio
Error message is as follows: Creating user `messagebus' with uid `556' pwd_mkdb: olivaresgidis incorrect pwd_mkdb: at line #25 pwd_mkdb: /etc/master.passwd: Inappropriate file type or format pw: passwd file update: No such file or directory *** Error code 74 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/dbus. ===>>> Installation of dbus-1.4.12_2 (devel/dbus) failed ===>>> Aborting update Advice/Comments/Suggestions on this particular machine. The others are churning and no failures almost complete. Thanks && Best Regards, Antonio _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"