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Date:      8 Apr 2012 14:09:40 -0000
From:      Scott Ballantyne <sdb@ssr.com>
To:        emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problems building Virtualbox on 9.0
Message-ID:  <20120408140940.7574.qmail@irelay.ssr.com>
In-Reply-To: <1333867711.17811.2.camel@Nokia-N900-42-11> (message from Bernhard =?utf-8?Q?Fr=C3=B6hlich?= on Sun, 08 Apr 2012 08:48:31 %2B0200)
References:  <20120407195537.67611.qmail@irelay.ssr.com> <1333867711.17811.2.camel@Nokia-N900-42-11>

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Hi Bernhard,

> > > 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.

I suppose that is possible, but I always use vipw, which runs
pwd_mkdb. In any case, during the build, the vboxusers was first
created, and then later on complained that vboxusers was already
created and terminated the build. That seems a bit conflicted to me :)

Thanks,
Scott
-- 
sdb@ssr.com




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