On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 03:09:26PM -0700, bob prohaska wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 12:14:10PM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote: > > > > I can't see any way that installkernel would lead to the complaint > > about the ntpd user not existing; that check is tied to the > > installworld target. > > > My mistake. I was sleepy and in a hurry. The error message was in installworld > and my attempt to adduser ntpd concluded with an error: > Locked : yes > OK? (yes/no): yes > pw: Bad id 'ntpd': invalid > adduser: ERROR: There was an error adding user (ntpd). > On reboot the old ntpd set the clock and I thought all was well. > > The failure is a little surprising, is ntpd a reserved name? Why? You obviously entered the string "ntpd" instead of an integer when asked for the uid!? > The machine is re-running buildworld/installworld from a clean start, > so presumably it'll halt over the same error again. When that happens, > what's the simplest way to recover? Mergemaster is a big hammer, something > less comprehensive might suffice, even manual editing of files. In this case 'mergemaster -p' is enough. -- HerbertReceived on Sat Jul 21 2018 - 21:49:43 UTC
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