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Date:      Thu, 24 Oct 2013 11:34:15 -0400
From:      Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com>
To:        Maciej Milewski <milu@dat.pl>
Cc:        "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 10.0-BETA1 i386 on VirtualBox
Message-ID:  <CAFMmRNwU4N2o-gP5V8M-uKv4NW%2B1sGSLNi3gLi3V1KVAT6VB1w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <526939BF.4030306@dat.pl>
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On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Maciej Milewski <milu@dat.pl> wrote:
> I've encountered problems with installing FreeBSD-10.0-BETA1 i386 under
> VirtualBox.
> The problem is with setting/changing root password during install process.
> After entering password twice there is:
>
> passwd: pam_chauthtok(): error in service module
>
> Then there shows pwd_mkdb.core in current directory.
> The same VirtualBox machine has no problems with installing
> FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE
>
> Has anyone any clues?
>
> Regards,
> Maciej Milewski

I have seen that error when the password database in /etc is not
writeable (in my case, / was mounted read-only).



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