cannot compile VirtualBox-ose 4.1.16 on FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE amd64

[Bernhard Froehlich]

On 01.06.2012 19:18, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> Bernhard Froehlich wrote:
>> On 31.05.2012 14:34, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I tried to install virtualbox-ose on our new testmachine, but
>>> compilation ends with error:
>>>
>
> [...]
>
>>>
>>> Full output can be seen on http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=7eDEWze8
>>
>>
>> The error above is completely unrelated because the problem starts 
>> much
>> earlier:
>>
>> In file included from
>> 
>> /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose/work/VirtualBox-4.1.16/src/VBox/HostServices/auth/pam/VBoxAuthPAM.c:81:
>>
>> /usr/include/security/pam_appl.h:43:35: error: 
>> security/openpam_attr.h:
>> No such file or directory
>>
>>
>> So it seems your system is broken. On my system I have the file and 
>> I
>> have just
>> checked that vbox 4.1.16 did build fine on a stock FreeBSD 8.3 
>> Tinderbox.
>>
>> # ident /usr/include/security/pam_appl.h
>> /usr/include/security/pam_appl.h:
>> $Id: pam_appl.h 408 2007-12-21 11:36:24Z des $
>>
>> # uname -a
>> FreeBSD chii.bluelife.at 9.0-STABLE FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #10: Wed May 
>> 23
>> 23:30:26 CEST 2012 
>> root at chii.bluelife.at:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
>
> You are right! The system is missing
> /usr/include/security/openpam_attr.h - I don't know the reason.
>
> I successfully build VirtualBox on another machine. But there were
> some other problems:
>
> On one run, installation ends with:
>
> ===>  Checking if emulators/virtualbox-ose already installed
> ===> Creating users and/or groups.
> Creating group 'vboxusers' with gid `920'.
> Creating user `vboxusers' with uid `920'.
> pw: user 'vboxusers' disappeared during update
> *** Error code 67
>
> On the next run:
>
> ===>  Checking if emulators/virtualbox-ose already installed
> ===> Creating users and/or groups.
> Using existing group `vboxusers'.
> Creating user `vboxusers' with uid `920'.
> pw: user 'vboxusers' already exists
> *** Error code 74
>
> After few next runs (and manual deletion of the vboxusers) it was
> built and now I am running VirtualBox headless.
>
> So thank you very much for you time and work on VirtualBox!

That is a symptom of a broken password database. So your password
database /etc/pwd.db and /etc/master.passwd are out of sync and
so pw complains.

-- 
Bernhard Froehlich
http://www.bluelife.at/