ports/164199: Ports fail to acknowlegde newly created users

[Bas v.d. Wiel]

>Number:         164199
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       Ports fail to acknowlegde newly created users
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
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>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jan 16 11:00:20 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Bas v.d. Wiel
>Release:        9.0-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD thinkpad.local.area536.com 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan  3 07:46:30 UTC 2012     root at farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

>Description:
Any ports that create their own system users, like dbus and HAL, fail to acknowledge the fact that these users actually exist. The error reported is something along the lines of "User went away during upgrade". The user is actually created and exists in /etc/passwd but the installation script for ports somehow doesn't notice this. 
>How-To-Repeat:
Install any port that creates a system user, like dbus.
>Fix:
Commenting out the USER and GROUP lines in the port's Makefile and running 'make install' a second time works as a workaround after the first 'make install' fails.

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