Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 22:20:21 +0100 From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org> To: Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Lost user database after bungled upgrade Message-ID: <20190828212021.GA66282@in-addr.com> In-Reply-To: <CAFMmRNy4aj7A0aqrKEpjYzP1TW_h7cUDp2Gm%2BnABD=H01FxFzA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAFMmRNy4aj7A0aqrKEpjYzP1TW_h7cUDp2Gm%2BnABD=H01FxFzA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 05:09:35PM -0400, Ryan Stone wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I lost /etc/master.passwd and friends while trying to recover from an > src upgrade gone wrong. I'm trying to run "pkg upgrade -f" to get all > of the users and groups created by packages recreating, but pkg is > hitting an assert related to uids: > > Checking integrity...Assertion failed: (strcmp(uid, p->uid) != 0), > function pkg_conflicts_check_local_path, file pkg_jobs_conflicts.c, > line 386. > > Is there any way to get past this, or is the system toast? Did you try restoring from the backups under /var/backups? There should be master.passwd in there which can be restored and /etc/passwd and the DB files regenarated with pwd_mkdb (I think, never tried) Regards, Gary
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