cannot compile VirtualBox-ose 4.1.16 on FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE amd64

[Miroslav Lachman]

Bernhard Froehlich wrote:
> On 01.06.2012 19:18, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
>> Bernhard Froehlich wrote:
>>> On 31.05.2012 14:34, Miroslav Lachman wrote:

[...]

>> I successfully build VirtualBox on another machine. But there were
>> some other problems:
>>
>> On one run, installation ends with:
>>
>> ===> Checking if emulators/virtualbox-ose already installed
>> ===> Creating users and/or groups.
>> Creating group 'vboxusers' with gid `920'.
>> Creating user `vboxusers' with uid `920'.
>> pw: user 'vboxusers' disappeared during update
>> *** Error code 67
>>
>> On the next run:
>>
>> ===> Checking if emulators/virtualbox-ose already installed
>> ===> Creating users and/or groups.
>> Using existing group `vboxusers'.
>> Creating user `vboxusers' with uid `920'.
>> pw: user 'vboxusers' already exists
>> *** Error code 74
>>
>> After few next runs (and manual deletion of the vboxusers) it was
>> built and now I am running VirtualBox headless.
>>
>> So thank you very much for you time and work on VirtualBox!
>
> That is a symptom of a broken password database. So your password
> database /etc/pwd.db and /etc/master.passwd are out of sync and
> so pw complains.

I think that pwd.db and master.passwd are OK. This error was shown on 
two different machines during the virtualbox-ose install.

But as I already fixed it, there are no more problems with VBox.

Thank you!

Miroslav Lachman