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From: Karsten Patzwaldt <karsten@gate5.de>
To: Henry smith <getzz11@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: 4.5-PRE crash!
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On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 08:45:46PM -0800, Henry smith wrote:
> I just upgraded from FreBSD4.3-RELEASE to
> FreeBSD4.5-PRE
> 
> 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 ?

Always run mergemaster after upgrading. Looks like the format of /etc/spwd.db
has changed.

For this specific problem, running pwd_mkdb should suffice.

	Karsten

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