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From: Bernhard =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=F6hlich?= <decke@bluelife.at>
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On Sa.,   7. Apr. 2012 21:55:37 CEST, Scott Ballantyne <sdb@ssr.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Just for your information...
> 
> This is a new install on Freebsd 9.0. 
> 
> I kept running afoul of 'pw' errors. The install bailed saying
> 
> > Creating group `vboxusers' with gid `920'.
> > Creating user `vboxusers' with uid `920'.
> > pw: user 'vboxusers' disappeared during update
> > *** Error code 67
> 
> but checking the /etc/group and /etc/master.passwd and /etc/passwd
> files showed that both were created.
> 
> So I continued the build, ending with:
> 
> > ===>   Installing for virtualbox-ose-4.1.10
> > ===>     Generating temporary packing list
> > ===>   Checking if emulators/virtualbox-ose already installed
> > ===> Creating users and/or groups.
> > Using existing group `vboxusers'.
> > Creating user `vboxusers' with uid `920'.
> > pw: user 'vboxusers' already exists
> > *** Error code 74
> > 
> > Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose.
> > *** Error code 1
> 
> > Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose.
> 
> Simply removing the vboxusers user allowed the build to complete.
> 
> Thanks for virtualbox - I'm looking forward to using it.

That just means you messed up your shadow password database. pwd_mkdb is what you need.