From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 20 21:28:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from luke.immure.com (cust-42-74.customer.jump.net [207.8.42.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DFFE14C49 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 21:28:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bob@luke.immure.com) Received: (from bob@localhost) by luke.immure.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) id XAA27208; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 23:28:16 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from bob) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 23:28:16 -0600 From: Bob Willcox To: Mike Heffner Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: error with install, "Unable to make device nodes..." Message-ID: <19991220232816.A27035@luke.immure.com> Reply-To: Bob Willcox References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Mike Heffner on Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 03:45:01PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Bob Willcox Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. bob@pmr.com I know better. The things I worry about don't Austin, TX happen. -- Watchman Examiner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message