I have a vps account and got problem with pw and also from sysinstall after upgrade FreeBSD from 8.2 to 8.3.
# uname -a
FreeBSD alamsyah-rasyid.cust.arpnetworks.com 8.2-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p3 #0: Tue Sep 27 18:45:57 UTC 2011 [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
# freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.3-RELEASE
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Applying patches…
# The following changes, which occurred between FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE and
FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE have been merged into /etc/group:
— current version
+++ new version
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-# $FreeBSD: src/etc/group,v 1.35.10.1.6.1 2010/12/21 17:09:25 kensmith Exp $
+# $FreeBSD: src/etc/group,v 1.35.10.2.2.1 2012/03/03 06:15:13 kensmith Exp $
you should check this file and see if tis fit your setting.
Mergemaster work as expected and time for freebsd-update install.
# freebsd-update install
Installing updates…
Kernel updates have been installed. Please reboot and run
“/usr/sbin/freebsd-update install” again to finish installing updates.
After restart the machine I need to add new account but got this error :
The ‘pw’ command exited with unexpected status 74
Further search lead me to this command :
cd /etc && pwd_mkdb -p master.passwd
This command work well and solve my problem.