FreeBSD5.2.1 - adduser pw: user 'user' disappeared during update

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Louis Harvey wrote:

> Hello !
> 
> For the first time after installing FreeBSD 5.2.1, I am trying to add
> a new user, but without success so far. I have tried many times (as
> root), with /usr/sbin/adduser and also with /stand/sysinstall >
> Configure > User Management > User (Add a new user to the system), but
> the operation seems fo fail at the end, when I give the final YES. I
> get the following error message:
> 
> pw: user 'user' disappeared during update
> 
> I have checked on the Web giving the error message as input to google,
> but got only one highly pertinent message. In the end, the guy says he
> re-installed FreeBSD, wihich I cannot do right now.

Maybe this will help:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-February/034920.html

> 
> I checked with the command vipw, and emacs shows the lines
> corresponding the users I attempted to create along with the other
> users I created at install time. There is no subdir under /home for my
> attempts at creating those users,  nor can I log into the system with
> those users.
> 
> Please, could someone help me with this message?
> 
> Salutations, Louis Harvey
> _______________________________________________


Oliver
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