Freebsd 5.4 seg fault with any passwd command

Daniel jahilliya at gmail.com
Thu Sep 1 19:30:16 PDT 2005


On 9/2/05, Jim Janovich <jimjano at ptd.net> wrote:
> Daniel,
> 
> Earlier I did the following:
> 
> Make buildworld
> Make buildkernel
> Make installkernel
> 
> Then I rebooted.  After the reboot same issues.  Is there something more I
> should do?  I really appreciate any help.

You havn't installed the world, let alone run any of the other
commands necessary.

Please read the comments at the top of /usr/src/Makefile, specifically
the content after "# For individuals wanting to upgrade their sources
(even if only a delta of a few days):"

This gives you the exact commands needed to run when doing a
buildworld/buildkernel...
> 
> Jim
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Daniel
> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 8:57 PM
> To: Jim Janovich
> Cc: questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Freebsd 5.4 seg fault with any passwd command
> 
> On 9/2/05, Jim Janovich <jimjano at ptd.net> wrote:
> > Thanks Mike.  The only thing I have been messing with is apache.mysql/php
> .
> > Any other ideas anyone?
> >
> 
> 
> Have you rebuilt the world without rebuilding the kernel? Running a
> different version of world vs kernel will cause similar problems to
> what you're experiencing (but generally on a more broader scale)....
> 
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
> > Jim
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mike Hernandez [mailto:sequethin at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 7:31 PM
> > To: Jim Janovich; questions at freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: Freebsd 5.4 seg fault with any passwd command
> >
> > On 9/1/05, Jim Janovich <jimjano at ptd.net> wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I am running 5.4 on an i386 and with any passwd-like command, passwd,
> > > chpass, chsh, I get a seg fault core dump.  Any ideas?  Any help would
> be
> > > greatly appreciated.
> > >
> >
> > Not sure if it's anywhere near related, but I've had issues like that
> > with linux when I was experimenting with PAM, Shadow, and cracklib. If
> > you have been messing with that stuff it may be a similar problem.
> > AFAIK the issue was a shadow bug, which was fixed in releases that
> > followed.  Just mentioning it in case...
> >
> > Mike
> >
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