Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 23:03:04 -0400 From: "Simon" <simon@optinet.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "Mark Felder" <feld@FreeBSD.org>, "Paul Schmehl" <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com> Subject: Re: Problem with freebsd-update corrupting /etc/passwd In-Reply-To: <1440100869.935695.361630681.4EA48DB2@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 15:01:09 -0500, Mark Felder wrote: >On Thu, Aug 20, 2015, at 14:17, Paul Schmehl wrote: >> I just upgraded two servers from 8.4-RELEASE to 10.2-RELEASE. On both >> servers I had a problem with the /etc/passwd file after upgrade. >> >> This is what I got on both servers: >> >> # pwd_mkdb -C /etc/passwd >> pwd_mkdb: corrupted entry >> pwd_mkdb: at line #3 >> pwd_mkdb: /etc/passwd: Inappropriate file type or format >> >> On one server a single user "disappeared" (getent passwd username >> returned >> nothing). On the other server, after I replaced it with >> /etc/masster.passwd, I looped through the /etc/passwd file and getent >> returned each entry, so no users "disappeared". >> >> Not sure what the problem might be, but I thought y'all should know. >> >During the upgrade did it ask you to merge some config files (passwd >included) ? That's the only time it would do so. Corruption on line #3 >makes me think it was trying to make you manually merge the FreeBSD ID / >timestamp at the top of the file. Unless something went wrong, it would ask, I bet that's where his corruption comes from. When I did 8.4->10.1-R upgrade using freebsd-update, it would ask me to merge both /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd manually He should look at /etc/passwd to see what's on line 3 and fix it :) -Simon
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