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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 22:20:21 +0100
From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
To: Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com>
Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Lost user database after bungled upgrade
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On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 05:09:35PM -0400, Ryan Stone wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I lost /etc/master.passwd and friends while trying to recover from an
> src upgrade gone wrong.  I'm trying to run "pkg upgrade -f" to get all
> of the users and groups created by packages recreating, but pkg is
> hitting an assert related to uids:
> 
> Checking integrity...Assertion failed: (strcmp(uid, p->uid) != 0),
> function pkg_conflicts_check_local_path, file pkg_jobs_conflicts.c,
> line 386.
> 
> Is there any way to get past this, or is the system toast?

Did you try restoring from the backups under /var/backups?  There should
be master.passwd in there which can be restored and /etc/passwd and
the DB files regenarated with pwd_mkdb (I think, never tried)

Regards,

Gary