Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 00:19:35 +0200 From: Maciej Milewski <milu@dat.pl> To: "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 10.0-BETA1 i386 on VirtualBox Message-ID: <52699CF7.8090506@dat.pl> In-Reply-To: <52694119.9050307@dat.pl> References: <526939BF.4030306@dat.pl> <CAFMmRNwU4N2o-gP5V8M-uKv4NW%2B1sGSLNi3gLi3V1KVAT6VB1w@mail.gmail.com> <52694119.9050307@dat.pl>
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On 24.10.2013 17:47, Maciej Milewski wrote: > On 24.10.2013 17:34, Ryan Stone wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Maciej Milewski <milu@dat.pl> wrote: >>> I've encountered problems with installing FreeBSD-10.0-BETA1 i386 under >>> VirtualBox. >>> The problem is with setting/changing root password during install >>> process. >>> After entering password twice there is: >>> >>> passwd: pam_chauthtok(): error in service module >>> >>> Then there shows pwd_mkdb.core in current directory. >>> The same VirtualBox machine has no problems with installing >>> FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE >>> >>> Has anyone any clues? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Maciej Milewski >> I have seen that error when the password database in /etc is not >> writeable (in my case, / was mounted read-only). > I don't think that's the case as during install I went to another > console to check how is mounted future / and it's: > /dev/ada0p2 on /mnt (ufs, local, journaled soft-updates) > and /mnt/etc/pwd.db, group, passwd are 644 and > spwd.db,master.passwd are 600 > The same as in running 9.2-RELEASE > > Anyway, thanks for the hint. > > Regards, > Maciej Milewski I've managed to make another simple test: chroot from 9.2-RELEASE kernel and I can change the password without a problem, chroot from 10.0-BETA1 kernel and error appears. No matter if I use 10.0-BETA1 kernel on 9.2-RELEASE userland or boot from CD image. For tests I turned off journal, left only soft-updates. Regards, Maciej Milewski
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