Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 00:35:47 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> Cc: never@nevermind.kiev.ua, lists@lists.symmetric.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installworld failure Message-ID: <20020414003547.E43915@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <20020413.231018.27293854.imp@village.org>; from imp@village.org on Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 11:10:18PM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.4.33L2.0204021445280.35622-100000@centipede.symmetric.net> <20020402152252.D52193@blossom.cjclark.org> <20020403113259.GA74371@nevermind.kiev.ua> <20020413.231018.27293854.imp@village.org>
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On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 11:10:18PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <20020403113259.GA74371@nevermind.kiev.ua>
> Nevermind <never@nevermind.kiev.ua> 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.
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