Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 20:59:06 +0100 From: Nuno Teixeira <nunotex@pt-quorum.com> To: Chip Wiegand <chip@wiegand.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: makeworld problem - my first attempt at this Message-ID: <20020516195905.GF427@gw.tex.bogus> In-Reply-To: <1021559128.14040.15.camel@chip3.wiegand.org> References: <20020516003220.E53036-100000@snafu.adept.org> <1021559128.14040.15.camel@chip3.wiegand.org>
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On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 07:25:27AM -0700, Chip Wiegand wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 01:36, Mike Hoskins wrote:
> > On 15 May 2002, Chip Wiegand wrote:
> >
> > > in as regular user, but there is no root account. I checked /etc/passed
> > > file and in fact it has only one entry - the user account I had just
> > > added in sysinstall. There should be quite a few other accounts in
> > > there. So it appears I still need to do something to get that up to
> > > snuff, but what? Sorry I don't recall the questions from mergemaster -p,
> > > it's late and I need to get to bed. :)
> >
> > In the future, take a nap before running mergemaster... Or drink a pot of
> > coffee. ;) I've never been so unfortuneate to have this bad of luck with
> > mergemaster... It sounds like it somehow left you with no passwd file.
> > (I thought the worst case would be a default passwd file - local
> > accounts...)
>
> Yep, the passwd and master.passwd were both empty, very unusual. I must
> have made a mistake with mergemaster somehow.
>
> > Grab a template from /usr/src/etc/master.passwd, merge your local account,
> > and you should be good to go. (Default group, etc. files are there too.)
>
> I found that and did a pwd_pkdb and now it is working fine.
> This has been soooo much fun I might just have to wipe out that box and
> do it again. Only this time I'll keep decent notes.
>
> Regards,
> Chip
>
> > Later,
> > -Mike
>
>
>
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Hi Chip,
I has the same problem (and a lot of more problems) when I use
mergemaster in my first update.
At the time, someone said to me to use mergemaster in this form:
# mergemaster -svia
# mergemaster -svir
The first command puts in /var/temproot all the files that differ from
installed versions.
The second one is manual.
I always used this method and never had a problem.
Bye,
Nuno Teixeira
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