Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2012 08:48:31 +0200 From: Bernhard =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=F6hlich?= <decke@bluelife.at> To: Scott Ballantyne <sdb@ssr.com>, emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems building Virtualbox on 9.0 Message-ID: <1333867711.17811.2.camel@Nokia-N900-42-11> In-Reply-To: <20120407195537.67611.qmail@irelay.ssr.com> References: <20120407195537.67611.qmail@irelay.ssr.com>
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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.
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