FreeBSD 11.1 - unknown group wheel

[Vanco, Juraj]

Thanks Alan,

that helped.

jv

-----Original Message-----
From: asomers at gmail.com [mailto:asomers at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Alan Somers
Sent: Tuesday, August 1, 2017 6:37 PM
To: Vanco, Juraj <juraj.vanco at intel.com>
Cc: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 11.1 - unknown group wheel

Check your /etc/nsswitch.conf file.  It's possible to screw that up so that /etc/groups doesn't even get checked.
-Alan

On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 11:27 AM, Vanco, Juraj <juraj.vanco at intel.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to build a kernel in FreeBSD 11.0, however I am getting a 
> message
>
> mtree -deU -f /usr/src/etc/mtree/BSD.usr.dist  -p 
> /usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr >/dev/null
> mtree: unknown group `wheel'
> mtree: failed at line 6 of the specification
> *** Error code 1
>
>
> However the group is known:
> # cat /etc/group | head -n 3
> # $FreeBSD: releng/11.0/etc/group 294896 2016-01-27 06:28:56Z araujo $ 
> # wheel:*:0:root
>
>
> and currently used:
> # groups
> 0
>
>
> Running any query on group result with zero answer:
> # getent group wheel
> #
> # getent group video
> #
>
>
> Similar result gives mergemaster:
> # mergemaster -p
>
> *** The directory specified for the temporary root environment,
>     /var/tmp/temproot, exists.  This can be a security risk if untrusted
>     users have access to the system.
>
>   Use 'd' to delete the old /var/tmp/temproot and continue
>   Use 't' to select a new temporary root directory
>   Use 'e' to exit mergemaster
>
>   Default is to use /var/tmp/temproot as is
>
> How should I deal with this? [Use the existing /var/tmp/temproot] d
>
>    *** Deleting the old /var/tmp/temproot
>
> *** Creating the temporary root environment in /var/tmp/temproot
>  *** /var/tmp/temproot ready for use
>  *** Creating and populating directory structure in /var/tmp/temproot
>
> install: unknown group wheel
>
>
> I cannot find if this is any known issue... Any clue?
>
> jv
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