Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 23:28:16 -0600 From: Bob Willcox <bob@luke.immure.com> To: Mike Heffner <spock@techfour.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: error with install, "Unable to make device nodes..." Message-ID: <19991220232816.A27035@luke.immure.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.991220154501.spock@techfour.net>; from Mike Heffner on Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 03:45:01PM -0500 References: <XFMail.991220154501.spock@techfour.net>
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On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 03:45:01PM -0500, Mike Heffner wrote:
> [ sorry if you get this twice, it didn't seem to go through the first time ]
>
> I'm having a problem trying to install the 12/20/99 -current snapshot. When I
> finalize all the settings and sysinstall is about to partition/setup the drive I
> get the following message:
>
> Unable to make device node of /dev/ad0s1b in /dev!
> The creation of filesystems will be aborted.
>
> If I switch to the second virtual terminal it says:
>
> DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for root filesystem
> DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for swap partitions
> DEBUG: MakeDev: Unable to lookup user "root".
> [ last line repeated several times ]
I am seeing this as well. I am also trying to install the
4.0-19991220-CURRENT snapshot (on an IBM 9G IDE drive). From scanning
the sources it looks like this message (the Unable to lookup user
"root") is being issued from src/lib/libdisk/create_chunk.c because the
getpwnam("root") has failed. I have not investigated it any further
yet, so I don't have any idea why getpwnam() failed.
Bob
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