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Date:      Sun, 23 Jun 2002 08:50:39 +1000
From:      Mark.Andrews@isc.org
To:        "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
Cc:        Lars Eighner <eighner@io.com>, Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Installworld fails: unknown groups games 
Message-ID:  <200206222250.g5MModm0081162@drugs.dv.isc.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 22 Jun 2002 17:32:44 EST." <20020622223244.GB10042@leviathan.inethouston.net> 

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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.

	DON'T FOLLOW THIS ADVICE.

	Follow the more precise instuctions in UPDATING.
	

> 
> -- 
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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