Lost user database after bungled upgrade

[Ryan Stone]

Thanks for the hint; I wasn't aware of /var/backups.  Unfortunately
fixing my user database at this point hasn't fixed pkg.  I'm worried
that it has some bad data cached somewhere now. I tried restoring the
pkg databack from /var/backups but that hasn't helped.


On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 5:20 PM Gary Palmer <gpalmer at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 05:09:35PM -0400, Ryan Stone wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I lost /etc/master.passwd and friends while trying to recover from an
> > src upgrade gone wrong.  I'm trying to run "pkg upgrade -f" to get all
> > of the users and groups created by packages recreating, but pkg is
> > hitting an assert related to uids:
> >
> > Checking integrity...Assertion failed: (strcmp(uid, p->uid) != 0),
> > function pkg_conflicts_check_local_path, file pkg_jobs_conflicts.c,
> > line 386.
> >
> > Is there any way to get past this, or is the system toast?
>
> Did you try restoring from the backups under /var/backups?  There should
> be master.passwd in there which can be restored and /etc/passwd and
> the DB files regenarated with pwd_mkdb (I think, never tried)
>
> Regards,
>
> Gary