buildworld fails w/ "unknown user smmsp"

[Liam J. Foy]

On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 12:55:38 -0500
Jon Drews <jon.drews at gmail.com> wrote:

> Platform: i386
> 
> Hi:
> 
>  I get the following error when I attempt to make my kernel:
> 
> mmtree -eU  -f /usr/src/etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist -p /
> mtree -eU  -f /usr/src/etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist -p /var
> mtree -eU  -f /usr/src/etc/mtree/BSD.usr.dist -p /usr
> mtree -eU  -f /usr/src/etc/mtree/BSD.include.dist  -p /usr/include
> mtree -deU  -f /usr/src/etc/mtree/BSD.sendmail.dist -p /
> mtree: line 10: unknown user smmsp
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/src/etc.
> *** Error code 1
> 
>  I configured postfix a while back to replace sendmail. However I do
> not see "smmsp" in either my /etc/group or /etc/passwd files. What
> have I done wrong here?

You have not properly ran 'mergemaster'. Please look at:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html

> 
> 
>                                           TIA,
>                                           Jonathan
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