Michel Talon <[email protected]> writes:
> Chris Brennan wrote:
>
>> On 7/26/2011 3:28 PM, RW wrote:
>> > It seems more reasonable than the idea that most people using FreeBSD
>> > are doing so despite being "very unhappy with FreeBSD ports". If
>> > that's=
>>
>> > really true then we should give Beastie nipple-clamps and a ball-gag
>> > to=
>>
>> > better appeal to our key demographic.
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>> +1 just because the thought of that is funny as hell!
>
> As a testimonial to the diabolical nature of FreeBSD yesterday i have
> installed a PC with FreeBSD-8.2 RELEASE, using the distributed packages
> (pkg_add -r). When installing gimp, something went south. After some
> checks it was avahi-app which refused to install, the reason being
> that pw groupadd -n avahi failed, with the message:
> "group disappeared during update"
[...]
Did you have nscd(8) running at the time? Try invalidating its cache.
%% an ugly hack
Index: usr.sbin/pw/pw_group.c
===================================================================
--- usr.sbin/pw/pw_group.c (revision 224499)
+++ usr.sbin/pw/pw_group.c (working copy)
@@ -266,7 +266,8 @@ pw_group(struct userconf * cnf, int mode, struct c
warn("group update");
return EX_IOERR;
}
/* grp may have been invalidated */
+ system("nscd -I group 2>/dev/null >&2");
if ((grp = GETGRNAM(a_name->val)) == NULL)
errx(EX_SOFTWARE, "group disappeared during update");
Index: usr.sbin/pw/pw_user.c
===================================================================
--- usr.sbin/pw/pw_user.c (revision 224499)
+++ usr.sbin/pw/pw_user.c (working copy)
@@ -729,6 +729,7 @@ pw_user(struct userconf * cnf, int mode, struct ca
editgroups(pwd->pw_name, cnf->groups);
/* go get a current version of pwd */
+ system("nscd -I user 2>/dev/null >&2");
pwd = GETPWNAM(a_name->val);
if (pwd == NULL) {
/* This will fail when we rename, so special case that */
%%
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