FreeBSD services startup problems

[Mark Martinec]

On Thursday December 27 2012 00:33:25 Derrick Dantavious Edwards wrote:
> Hi,
> I am having problems with startup services in FreeBSD current. I am at a
> loss on where the problem lies. Even though I have services explicitly
> defined in rc.conf for startup they do not start. Startup scripts both
> in /etc/rc.d (powerd/moused) and /usr/local/etc/rc.d (dbus,hald, and gdm
> ) are experiencing this. Initially, I checked out my rc.conf file as
> well as the /etc/defaults/rc.conf because I continue to get this
> message.
> 
> /etc/rc: WARNING: $auditdistd_enable is not set properly - see
> rc.conf(5).
> [...]

Forgot to run mergemaster -p  ?


/usr/src/UPDATING

20121218:
  With the addition of auditdistd(8), a new auditdistd user is now
  depended on during installworld.  "mergemaster -p" can be used to
  add the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook.


Mark