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Date:      Thu, 3 Jan 2002 21:29:30 -0800 (PST)
From:      Henry smith <getzz11@yahoo.com>
To:        Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: password error
Message-ID:  <20020104052930.88720.qmail@web21103.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <1010122093.86152.55.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>

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there was an error message:

line too long
/etc/master.passwd: Inappropriate file type or format

--- Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 23:46, Henry smith wrote:
> > I just upgraded from FreBSD4.3-RELEASE to
> > FreeBSD4.5-PRE
> 
> Sounds like you forgot to run mergemaster after
> doing an installworld. 
> You should be able to fix this by running pwd_mkdb. 
> You should probably
> also run mergemaster also to merge in config changes
> between 4.3 and
> 4.5-PRE.
> 
> Joe
> 
> > 
> > When I try to login, there was an error:
> > 
> > Login: root
> > /etc/spwd.db: Inappropriate file type or format
> > 
> > Anybody know what should I do to fix this problem
> ?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance.
> > 
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