The following attempt was done one 12.0-RELEASE. # pkg install rabbitmq Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... FreeBSD repository is up to date. All repositories are up to date. Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting) The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked): New packages to be INSTALLED: rabbitmq: 3.8.1_1 Number of packages to be installed: 1 The process will require 13 MiB more space. Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y [1/1] Installing rabbitmq-3.8.1_1... ===> Creating groups. Using existing group 'rabbitmq'. ===> Creating users Creating user 'rabbitmq' with uid '135'. pw: user 'rabbitmq' disappeared during update install: unknown user rabbitmq pkg: PRE-INSTALL script failed
disregard. After rebuilding master.passwd (pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd) - the error ceased.
Closing as this is not a bug!