Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 17:26:14 -0500 From: Glenn Gombert <ggombert@imatowns.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install World fails in -Current Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20020222172614.00dabac0@imatowns.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.020222113545.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <200202221338.g1MDceE75453@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
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All I did was to add a 'smmsp' user in via the sysisntall utility, ran 'installworld/mergemaster' again and things worked fine, adding a not to the Updating file might be a good idea for others thought :) At 11:35 AM 2/22/2002 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > >On 22-Feb-02 David Wolfskill wrote: >>>Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 08:33:01 -0500 >>>From: Glenn Gombert <ggombert@imatowns.com> >> >>>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 <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ >"Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > Glenn Gombert ggombert@imatowns.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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