Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:22:58 +1000 From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> To: Corry Andrew Lazarowitz <corry@unt.edu> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newfs error Message-ID: <3FB1FBF2.2090703@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <sfb172b4.026@gwia.unt.edu>
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Hi Corry, > I believe it first prints what it is going to do as far as reading the secotrs, setting a block size, etc. > Then it prints out suber-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: > then it lists a long set of long numbers > Finially, it says > newfs: Cannot retrieve operator gid > > I tried searching the internet all over, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, even linux stuff, I couldn't find anything with operator gid and newfs. I am guessing this is probably because of 1 of 2 things: > 1 no one has had this issue before. Not likely > 2 Its a real simple problem, or I am doing that SHOULD be obviously wrong, but alas, I can't see it. I don't have an /etc/group file on the CDROM image, but newfs still works OK. Try copying the /etc/group file from your i386 system into the exported NFS /etc dir and see if that fixes things. later, Peter.home | help
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