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

[Bernhard Froehlich]

On 01.06.2012 21:11, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> 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.

Just for the record. The virtualbox port only tells the ports framework
that it needs some users/groups to install correctly by setting
USERS= vboxusers but the actual creation of that happens within the 
ports
framework (See create-users-groups target in 
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk).

So this has nothing to do with virtualbox itself - it just happens to
be one of the ports that need a special user/group. Use pwd_mkdb(8) to
recreate your password database and everything should be fine again.

-- 
Bernhard Froehlich
http://www.bluelife.at/