From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 22 14:28:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from blount.mail.mindspring.net (blount.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A804837B43D; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 14:28:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from user-1120bjg.dsl.mindspring.com ([66.32.46.112] helo=europa2) by blount.mail.mindspring.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16eOAe-00023H-00; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 17:28:04 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20020222172614.00dabac0@imatowns.com> X-Sender: ggombert@imatowns.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 17:26:14 -0500 To: John Baldwin , David Wolfskill From: Glenn Gombert Subject: Re: Install World fails in -Current Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <200202221338.g1MDceE75453@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG All I did was to add a 'smmsp' user in via the sysisntall utility, ran 'installworld/mergemaster' again and things worked fine, adding a not to the Updating file might be a good idea for others thought :) At 11:35 AM 2/22/2002 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > >On 22-Feb-02 David Wolfskill wrote: >>>Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 08:33:01 -0500 >>>From: Glenn Gombert >> >>>I have tried to re-cvsup and a clean rebuild the alst couple of days, and I >>>keep getting this error when I try and do an 'installworld' ..after a clean >>>build...does anyone know what might be causing this?? >> >>>... >>>........ >>>mtree -deU -f /usr/src/etc/mtree/BSD.var -p /var >>>mtree: line 67: unknown user smmsp >> >> >> Sounds like a botched (or not run) "mergemaster" execution: > >Sort of. The problem is we have added a new user that installworld depends on. >Imagine a 4.x to 5.0 upgrade right now. 4.x doesn't have this user IIRC, and >you are supposed to run installworld before mergemaster. Sounds like a nice >catch 22 to me. :-/ > >-- > >John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ >"Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > Glenn Gombert ggombert@imatowns.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message