Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 17:32:44 -0500 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> To: Lars Eighner <eighner@io.com> Cc: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installworld fails: unknown groups games Message-ID: <20020622223244.GB10042@leviathan.inethouston.net> In-Reply-To: <20020622173004.J281-100000@dumpster.io.com> References: <3D14CD56.9080008@owt.com> <20020622173004.J281-100000@dumpster.io.com>
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> > >> built world, built and installed a custom kernel > > >> (except for kernel name the conf file was the same > > >> as I have been using for 3.3-STABLE). I knew > > >> about the send mail gotcha and created the > > >> smmsp user. > > >> > > >> Now installworld fails with: > > >> > > >> mtree: line 34: unknown group games > > >> > > >> So, now what?\ > > > > > > > > > > > > Add > > > > > > games:*:13: > > > > > > to /etc/games. > > > > ^^^^^ > > group > > Bingo. > > Thanks to all who replied. > > I searched UPDATING for "games" but found no hint of this. > Although the makefile says to run mergemaster -p > befor installing world, mergemaster denied all knowledge of > a -p switch. > > Did it mention something about compiling and installing mergemaster first? your version is prob ably old and doesn't know about p, so you'll have to find mergemaster in /usr/src and run make && make install then you should be able to use -p if you don't have a new mergemastger already. -- David W. Chapman Jr. dwcjr@inethouston.net Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net> dwcjr@freebsd.org FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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