From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 13 03:35:35 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC1FB16A51F for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 03:35:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com) Received: from mail5.tpgi.com.au (mail5.tpgi.com.au [203.12.160.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C5BE43D49 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 03:35:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com) X-TPG-Antivirus: Passed Received: from localhost (60-241-7-35.tpgi.com.au [60.241.7.35]) by mail5.tpgi.com.au (envelope-from shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com) (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2D3ZVSH010265; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 14:35:32 +1100 From: Warren Liddell To: Kent Stewart Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 13:34:54 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200603131024.24982.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com> <200603121918.12362.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <200603121918.12362.kstewart@owt.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200603131334.55514.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem doing installworld X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 03:35:36 -0000 > This is a little bit obscure but you basically didn't follow the generic > instructions on updating your system. You can get away without doing > the > mergemaster -p > most of the time but when you see a message about a missing user or > group, you have to add them to the appropriate file and carefully > running mergemaster -p will let you fix the problem. > > Kent I do things different. I run portupgrade, followed by buildworld installworld and then kernel update and since i started back with 4.x i havent had any problems doing it that way, untill this minor problem when trying to do installworld :)