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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>>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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ >"Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > Glenn Gombert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
