10.0-BETA1 i386 on VirtualBox

[Ryan Stone]

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Maciej Milewski <milu at dat.pl> wrote:
> I've encountered problems with installing FreeBSD-10.0-BETA1 i386 under
> VirtualBox.
> The problem is with setting/changing root password during install process.
> After entering password twice there is:
>
> passwd: pam_chauthtok(): error in service module
>
> Then there shows pwd_mkdb.core in current directory.
> The same VirtualBox machine has no problems with installing
> FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE
>
> Has anyone any clues?
>
> Regards,
> Maciej Milewski

I have seen that error when the password database in /etc is not
writeable (in my case, / was mounted read-only).