Unable to set root's password during install of FreeBSD-10.0-CURRENT-i386-20130601-r251213-release.iso

[Trond Endrestøl]

On Mon, 3 Jun 2013 08:55+0200, Trond Endrestøl wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm unable to get past the rootpass step using the 
> FreeBSD-10.0-CURRENT-i386-20130601-r251213-release.iso snapshot.
> 
> The error message:
> 
> passwd: pam_chauthtok(): error in service module
> 
> is briefly shown, leaving behind a core file named /pwd_mkdb.core. 
> 
> pwd_mkdb does not contain any debugging symbols and this makes it a 
> bit hard to guess what went wrong. Anyway, here's the backtrace as 
> provided by gdb:
> 
> Script started on Mon Jun  3 06:50:44 2013
> command: gdb /usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb /pwd_mkdb.core
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> This GDB was configured as "i386-marcel-freebsd"...(no debugging symbols found)...
> Core was generated by `pwd_mkdb'.
> Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
> #0  0x00000000 in ?? ()
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x00000000 in ?? ()
> #1  0x0804acf2 in __pw_scan ()
> #2  0x0804976a in __pw_scan ()
> #3  0x08048e6a in ?? ()
> #4  0x00000007 in ?? ()
> #5  0xbfbfdd18 in ?? ()
> #6  0xbfbfdd38 in ?? ()
> #7  0xbfbfdd38 in ?? ()
> #8  0xbfbfdd14 in ?? ()
> #9  0x00000000 in ?? ()
> (gdb) q
> 
> Script done on Mon Jun  3 06:50:49 2013
> 
> Has anyone else tried recently to change user passwords on -CURRENT?

FYI: The FreeBSD-10.0-CURRENT-amd64-20130601-r251213-release.iso 
snapshot does not exhibit the above behaviour. Maybe this issue is 
specific to the i386 arch.

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