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Date:      Tue, 5 Jan 2010 10:24:30 +0100
From:      =?iso-8859-1?Q?Eirik_=D8verby?= <ltning@anduin.net>
To:        "Bernhard Froehlich" <decke@bluelife.at>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org, Martin Wilke <miwi@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Call for tester: VirtualBox 3.1.2 for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <DFE9E5DD-528B-44DE-A7F3-458834BCF01A@anduin.net>
In-Reply-To: <bd1ad668cf142fab84f74bd48c98534d.squirrel@webmail.itac.at>
References:  <20091227232425.GA38213@bsdcrew.de> <575AE1A9-24EC-4E18-9236-C997B6AB7ECC@anduin.net> <bd1ad668cf142fab84f74bd48c98534d.squirrel@webmail.itac.at>

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On 5. jan. 2010, at 10.12, Bernhard Froehlich wrote:

> On Tue, January 5, 2010 9:18 am, Eirik =D8verby wrote:
>> Hi,
>>=20
>> On 28. des. 2009, at 00.24, Martin Wilke wrote:
>>=20
>>> - Install new port:
>>>   # cd ../virtualbox-ose-kmod && make install clean
>>>   # cd ../virtualbox-ose && make install clean
>>=20
>> At this point, the install fails like thus:
>>=20
>> running install_egg_info
>> Removing =
/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/vboxapi-1.0-py2.6.egg-info
>> Writing =
/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/vboxapi-1.0-py2.6.egg-info
>> (cd
>> =
/root/vbox/virtualbox-ose/work/VirtualBox-3.1.2_OSE/out/freebsd.amd64/rele=
ase/bin/sdk/bindings/xpcom/python
>> && /bin/sh -c '(/usr/bin/find -d $0 $2 | /usr/bin/cpio -dumpl $1
>>> /dev/null  2>&1) &&  /usr/sbin/chown -R root:wheel $1 &&  =
/usr/bin/find
>> -d $0 $2 -type d -exec chmod 755 $1/{} \; &&  /usr/bin/find -d $0 $2 =
-type
>> f -exec chmod 444 $1/{} \;' -- "*" =
/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages)
>> /usr/local/bin/python2.6 -mcompileall
>> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xpcom/
>> Listing /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xpcom/ ...
>> Listing /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xpcom/client ...
>> Listing /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xpcom/server ...
>> pw: group 'vboxusers' already exists
>> Adding group "vboxusers" failed...
>> *** Error code 1
>>=20
>> Stop in /root/vbox/virtualbox-ose.
>> *** Error code 1
>>=20
>> Stop in /root/vbox/virtualbox-ose.
>>=20
>> The vboxusers group does indeed exist:
>> vboxusers:*:920:
>> but has no users. Adding myself changes nothing.
>=20
> Looks a bit weird. The install script only needs and creates a =
vboxusers
> group so that it can install the files with the correct ownership. But =
it

Reason found. Nscd was running, and somehow had not updated its cache =
for some reason. Restarted it, and now it works.

Sorry about the noise.

/Eirik


> checks first if the group exists and that check seems to fail for an
> unknown reason. Could you please send back the output of the following =
3
> commands? (as root)
>=20
> pw group show vboxusers; echo $?
>=20
> pw groupadd vboxusers -g 920
>=20
> grep vbox /etc/group
>=20
>=20
>> Should I install the current version from ports first, before trying =
to
>> ugprade to this snapshot?
>=20
> I think that should not change anything because the install script did =
not
> change for a long time.
>=20
> My guess at the moment is that something in your /etc/group is
> inconsistent or wrong so that the tools get confused.
>=20
> --=20
> Bernhard Fr=F6hlich
> http://www.bluelife.at/
>=20
>=20




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