Bug 250741

Summary:	installing sndio 1.7.0 fails on 12.2
Product:	Ports & Packages	Reporter:	Philip Homburg <pch-freebsd-bugs-1>
Component:	Individual Port(s)	Assignee:	Fernando Apesteguía <fernape>
Status:	Closed Not A Bug
Severity:	Affects Only Me	CC:	a.wolk, fernape
Priority:	---
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Philip Homburg 2020-10-30 16:39:52 UTC

pkg upgrade tries to install sndio 1.7.0 (on 12.2). This fails with:

[1/16] Installing sndio-1.7.0...
===> Creating groups.
Using existing group '_sndio'.
===> Creating users
Creating user '_sndio' with uid '702'.
pw: user '_sndio' disappeared during update
pkg: PRE-INSTALL script failed

Comment 1 Philip Homburg 2020-11-05 12:20:54 UTC

I found the issue. _sndio was in master.passwd but not in pwd.db.

After running pwd_mkdb it installed fine.

I have no clue where the inconsistency came from.

Comment 2 Fernando Apesteguía freebsd_committer

2020-11-10 18:54:03 UTC

Glad to hear you figure it out.

Closing since it is resolved and there are no more notifications about this.

Comment 3 Adam Wolk 2020-11-30 09:41:32 UTC

I had the same issue after upgrading to 12.1-RELEASE-p10. This ticket helped me resolve it.

root@aw:~ # pkg install chromium
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
The following 2 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

New packages to be INSTALLED:
chromium: 85.0.4183.121_1
sndio: 1.7.0

Number of packages to be installed: 2

The process will require 275 MiB more space.

Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
[1/2] Installing sndio-1.7.0...
===> Creating groups.
Using existing group '_sndio'.
===> Creating users
Creating user '_sndio' with uid '702'.
pw: user '_sndio' disappeared during update
pkg: PRE-INSTALL script failed

After running
root@aw:~ # pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd

I was able to install chrome as expected.

Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
[1/2] Installing sndio-1.7.0...
===> Creating groups.
Using existing group '_sndio'.
===> Creating users
Using existing user '_sndio'.
[1/2] Extracting sndio-1.7.0: 100%
[2/2] Installing chromium-85.0.4183.121_1...
[2/2] Extracting chromium-85.0.4183.121_1: 100%
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I'm adding this comment to note that this wasn't affecting only a single user, it also blocked a popular package from installing.