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Date:      Sun, 23 Jun 2002 08:47:51 +1000
From:      Mark.Andrews@isc.org
To:        Lars Eighner <eighner@io.com>
Cc:        Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Installworld fails: unknown groups games 
Message-ID:  <200206222247.g5MMlpm0081130@drugs.dv.isc.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 22 Jun 2002 17:32:23 EST." <20020622173004.J281-100000@dumpster.io.com> 

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> On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Kent Stewart wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > Kent Stewart wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Lars Eighner wrote:
> > >
> > >> I cvsupped stable yesterday (friday) morning,
> > >> 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.

	Go read the UPDATING entry for 20020404.
	Basically install a new mergemaster first.

	Also since you are upgrading from 3.3 you may need to
	take special care.  Read through everything in UPDATING.

	Mark
 
> 
> 
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