Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2012 11:38:38 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> To: =?UTF-8?B?QmVybmhhcmQgRnLDtmhsaWNo?= <decke@bluelife.at>, Scott Ballantyne <sdb@ssr.com> Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problems building Virtualbox on 9.0 Message-ID: <4F814E8E.8000308@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <1333867711.17811.2.camel@Nokia-N900-42-11> References: <20120407195537.67611.qmail@irelay.ssr.com> <1333867711.17811.2.camel@Nokia-N900-42-11>
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on 08/04/2012 09:48 Bernhard Fröhlich said the following: > On Sa., 7. Apr. 2012 21:55:37 CEST, Scott Ballantyne <sdb@ssr.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Just for your information... >> >> This is a new install on Freebsd 9.0. >> >> I kept running afoul of 'pw' errors. The install bailed saying >> >>> Creating group `vboxusers' with gid `920'. >>> Creating user `vboxusers' with uid `920'. >>> pw: user 'vboxusers' disappeared during update >>> *** Error code 67 >> >> but checking the /etc/group and /etc/master.passwd and /etc/passwd >> files showed that both were created. >> >> So I continued the build, ending with: >> >>> ===> Installing for virtualbox-ose-4.1.10 >>> ===> Generating temporary packing list >>> ===> Checking if emulators/virtualbox-ose already installed >>> ===> Creating users and/or groups. >>> Using existing group `vboxusers'. >>> Creating user `vboxusers' with uid `920'. >>> pw: user 'vboxusers' already exists >>> *** Error code 74 >>> >>> Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose. >>> *** Error code 1 >> >>> Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose. >> >> Simply removing the vboxusers user allowed the build to complete. >> >> Thanks for virtualbox - I'm looking forward to using it. > > That just means you messed up your shadow password database. pwd_mkdb is what you need. This looks more like a nscd bug. -- Andriy Gapon
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