From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 22 8:35:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B08137B400 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 08:35:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 16573 invoked from network); 22 Feb 2002 16:35:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([65.90.111.58]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 22 Feb 2002 16:35:46 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200202221338.g1MDceE75453@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 11:35:45 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: David Wolfskill Subject: Re: Install World fails in -Current Cc: ggombert@imatowns.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 22-Feb-02 David Wolfskill wrote: >>Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 08:33:01 -0500 >>From: Glenn Gombert > >>I have tried to re-cvsup and a clean rebuild the alst couple of days, and I >>keep getting this error when I try and do an 'installworld' ..after a clean >>build...does anyone know what might be causing this?? > >>... >>........ >>mtree -deU -f /usr/src/etc/mtree/BSD.var -p /var >>mtree: line 67: unknown user smmsp > > > Sounds like a botched (or not run) "mergemaster" execution: Sort of. The problem is we have added a new user that installworld depends on. Imagine a 4.x to 5.0 upgrade right now. 4.x doesn't have this user IIRC, and you are supposed to run installworld before mergemaster. Sounds like a nice catch 22 to me. :-/ -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message