Error in synth after upgrading from 10.4 to 12.0

[Jonathan Chen]

On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 at 16:39, Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH <kurt.buff at gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> Then, I did "rehash", and then "synth install /root/pkg.txt" to get my
> preferred ports installed, and receive this error.
>
> raised REPLICANT.SCENARIO_UNEXPECTED : /usr/sbin/mtree -p
> /usr/obj/synth-live/SL09/var -f /etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist -deqU =>
> failed (exit code not 0

FreeBSD 12 introduced "ntpd" uid=123 into master.passwd. Make sure
that user is present on your system.

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>