ports/164199: Ports fail to acknowlegde newly created users

[Jan Beich]

The following reply was made to PR ports/164199; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jan Beich <jbeich at tormail.net>
To: "Bas v.d. Wiel" <bas at area536.com>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/164199: Ports fail to acknowlegde newly created users
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:06:41 -0900

 "Bas v.d. Wiel" <bas at area536.com> writes:
 
 >>Description:
 > Any ports that create their own system users, like dbus and HAL, fail
 > to acknowledge the fact that these users actually exist. The error
 > reported is something along the lines of "User went away during
 > upgrade". The user is actually created and exists in /etc/passwd but
 > the installation script for ports somehow doesn't notice this.
 
 Do you happen to run nscd(8) ? See bin/119695.