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From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
To: Lars Eighner <eighner@io.com>
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Subject: Re: Installworld fails: unknown groups games
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> > >> built world, built and installed a custom kernel
> > >> (except for kernel name the conf file was the same
> > >> as I have been using for 3.3-STABLE).  I knew
> > >> about the send mail gotcha and created the
> > >> smmsp user.
> > >>
> > >> Now installworld fails with:
> > >>
> > >> mtree: line 34: unknown group games
> > >>
> > >> So, now what?\
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Add
> > >
> > > games:*:13:
> > >
> > > to /etc/games.
> >
> >            ^^^^^
> >             group
> 
> Bingo.
> 
> Thanks to all who replied.
> 
> I searched UPDATING for "games" but found no hint of this.
> Although the makefile says to run mergemaster -p
> befor installing world, mergemaster denied all knowledge of
> a -p switch.
> 
> 
Did it mention something about compiling and installing mergemaster 
first?

your version is prob ably old and doesn't know about p, so you'll 
have to find mergemaster in /usr/src and run make && make install 
then you should be able to use -p if you don't have a new 
mergemastger already.

-- 
David W. Chapman Jr.
dwcjr@inethouston.net	Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net>
dwcjr@freebsd.org	FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org>

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