From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 15 17: 3:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (mail.pioneernet.net [207.115.64.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10D1D37B401 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 17:03:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chip3.wiegand.org [66.114.152.128] by pioneernet.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A7283F600D6; Wed, 15 May 2002 17:02:48 -0700 Subject: Re: makeworld problem - my first attempt at this From: Chip Wiegand To: Jonathan Chen Cc: FreeBSD Stable , mike@adept.org In-Reply-To: <20020516112708.A5642@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <1021504989.11672.19.camel@chip3.wiegand.org> <20020516112708.A5642@grimoire.chen.org.nz> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 Date: 15 May 2002 17:05:53 -0700 Message-Id: <1021507563.11672.25.camel@chip3.wiegand.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 17:27, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 04:23:08PM -0700, Chip Wiegand wrote: > > [...] > > #make installworld > > faild again, same message as before - required smmsp user is missing. > > According to UPDATING running mergemaster would take care of this > > problem. > > > > That is where I am stuck. What to do now? > > You can add the smmsp user and group manually to /etc/master.passwd and > /etc/group. Remember to run pwd_mkdb, and then try the mergemaster again > -- > Jonathan Chen Thanks for the tips guys, it's running right now, has been for a while. I ran pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd, then ran mergemaster -p, and this time it worked. I don't know why mergemaster -p didn't work before. Even the -help screen did not show -p as an available option. Anyway, my first time at this and it appears to be going okay for now. Thanks, Chip W www.wiegand.org chip@wiegand.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message