From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Apr 14 0:35:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BDBC37B404 for ; Sun, 14 Apr 2002 00:35:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org ([12.234.91.48]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020414073549.TAAI1901.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@blossom.cjclark.org>; Sun, 14 Apr 2002 07:35:49 +0000 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g3E7ZlP51860; Sun, 14 Apr 2002 00:35:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 00:35:47 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: "M. Warner Losh" Cc: never@nevermind.kiev.ua, lists@lists.symmetric.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installworld failure Message-ID: <20020414003547.E43915@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <20020402152252.D52193@blossom.cjclark.org> <20020403113259.GA74371@nevermind.kiev.ua> <20020413.231018.27293854.imp@village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020413.231018.27293854.imp@village.org>; from imp@village.org on Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 11:10:18PM -0600 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ 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 Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 11:10:18PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <20020403113259.GA74371@nevermind.kiev.ua> > Nevermind writes: > : Hello, Crist J. Clark! > : > : On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 03:22:52PM -0800, you wrote: > : > : > > mtree -deU -f /usr/src/etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist -p /var > : > > mtree: line 63: unknown user smmsp > : > > *** Error code 1 > : > > > : > > ==== > : > > > : > > what is wrong here? > : > > : > You don't have a user smmsp in your passwd(5) database. Update your > : > master.passwd(5) and group(5) files and try again. > : Shouldn't it be done by mergemaster? I think that build/install should > : not depend on this kind of things, or there should be note in handbook > : (&& | ||) UPDATING that mergemaster should be run _before_ installworld. > > Actually, generally speaking, mergemaster should be done after the > installworld. However, this issue does raise an interesting point > that sometimes the account merge part of it does need to be run > before. This is what the '-p' option was added for. A "pre-buildworld" run. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message