From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 3 21:28:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu57-28-046.nc.rr.com [66.57.28.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B391937B425 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 21:28:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (marcus@shumai.marcuscom.com [192.168.1.4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g045RWv30063; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 00:27:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Subject: Re: password error From: Joe Clarke To: Henry smith Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020104044633.97007.qmail@web21109.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020104044633.97007.qmail@web21109.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0 (Preview Release) Date: 04 Jan 2002 00:28:12 -0500 Message-Id: <1010122093.86152.55.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 23:46, Henry smith wrote: > I just upgraded from FreBSD4.3-RELEASE to > FreeBSD4.5-PRE Sounds like you forgot to run mergemaster after doing an installworld. You should be able to fix this by running pwd_mkdb. You should probably also run mergemaster also to merge in config changes between 4.3 and 4.5-PRE. Joe > > When I try to login, there was an error: > > Login: root > /etc/spwd.db: Inappropriate file type or format > > Anybody know what should I do to fix this problem ? > > Thanks in advance. > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send your FREE holiday greetings online! > http://greetings.yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message