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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


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