Please help, updated to 4.8 serious issues

[Mikhail Kruk]

Your /etc/passwd file is messed up. The kernel install process could not 
find the user root. Copy the passwd and maybe master.passwd files into /etc

> Oh, I did mergemaster, that's when all the problems have started, I'm
> still learning how to use mergemaster.
> I did build new world, installed new kernel, rebooted and then ran
> mergemaster, then before I restarted the box again, after I used
> mergemaster, I decided to go ahead and see if everything is still
> functional, switched to another console, typed Login: root
> Passwd: password
> And got:
> Pam_authontication: permission denied.
> So, I dropped back to single user mode and repeated the whole process
> all over again, including cvsup, when everything was almost done, I got
> this weird error:
> http://community.webshots.com/photo/69996248/69996266FYKaAY
> 
> ???
> Thank you very much
> Best Regards, Anton
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Moran [mailto:wmoran at potentialtech.com] 
> Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 2:17 PM
> To: Anton Zavrin
> Cc: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Please help, updated to 4.8 serious issues
> 
> Anton Zavrin wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > After I updated my FreeBSD box from 4.7 to 4.8 I "lost" my users, but
> > heck with users, what I mean by lost is that I can't login, when I try
> > to login as the root or a regular user it says:
> > pam_authanticate: permission denied
> > so, I went ahead and re-updated my box from the very beginning,
> > including unnecessary at this point cvsup. I used this command: make
> > buildworld && make buildkernel KERNCONF=mykern && make installkernel
> > KERNCONF=mykern && reboot so, everything went OK, but at the end when
> it
> > was almost done with kernel, it gave me error code 1, it reads:
> > Please see attachment, screenshot
> > 
> > What am I doing now, I'm scared ;-)
> 
> Don't be scared.
> 
> Go back and read the docs ... if you don't realize the step you missed,
> I'll give you a hint: mergemaster.
> 
> -- 
> Bill Moran
> Potential Technologies
> http://www.potentialtech.com
> 
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