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Date:      04 Jan 2002 00:28:12 -0500
From:      Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Henry smith <getzz11@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: password error
Message-ID:  <1010122093.86152.55.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020104044633.97007.qmail@web21109.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20020104044633.97007.qmail@web21109.mail.yahoo.com>

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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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