freebsd stable - Mar 2006 - -stable make world: ERROR: Required audit group is missing, see /usr/src/UPDATING

Subject says it all.. nothing in UPDATING regarding audit group.

Appears to have been in the process of linking sshd

This src is RELENG_6 cvsup'd ~1930 UTC this date

Any help is greatly appreciated

-kim

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Kim Culhan wrote:
>Subject says it all.. nothing in UPDATING regarding audit group.
>
>Appears to have been in the process of linking sshd
>
>This src is RELENG_6 cvsup'd ~1930 UTC this date
>
>Any help is greatly appreciated
>
>-kim
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Kim;

I expect you forgot to run mergemaster. That would have added the audit 
group. From (near the end) of UPDATING;

        To rebuild everything and install it on the current system.
        -----------------------------------------------------------
        # Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than
        # is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current.

        <make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
        make buildworld
        make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
                                                                   [1]
        <reboot in single user>                     [3]
        mergemaster -p                                 [5]
        make installworld
        make delete-old
        mergemaster                                     [4]
        <reboot>

Further down in UPDATING you'll see the notes referenced in the above 
procedure.

Patrick

On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 16:50:05 -0500
Kim Culhan <w8hdkim@gmail.com> wrote:
> Subject says it all.. nothing in UPDATING regarding audit group.
> 
> Appears to have been in the process of linking sshd
> 
> This src is RELENG_6 cvsup'd ~1930 UTC this date
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated
To you and everybody else; please read the documentation about 'make
world' in the handbook ("The Canonical Way to Update Your
System").
It *clearly* states that you should do 'mergemaster -p' .

HTH
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Torfinn Ingolfsen,
Norway

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On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 04:50:05PM -0500, Kim Culhan
wrote:
> Subject says it all.. nothing in UPDATING regarding audit group.
> 
> Appears to have been in the process of linking sshd
> 
> This src is RELENG_6 cvsup'd ~1930 UTC this date
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated
Heh, however, there is, at the end, something about running mergemaster
- -p before doing make installworld.   That's the solution. 

In fairness, many folks often skip mergemaster -p without ill effect
till something like this happens. 

There have been many posts about this.  One could argue back and forth
or submit a patch for UPDATING.  The pro side of adding it is that there
have been a lot of posts similar to this and it is considered a server
O/S not a hobbyist O/S, and busy sysadmins who have been updating for a
long time and not bitten by ignoring mergemaster -p (I forget the last
time it caught a lot of people--was it with the authpf?--in a long time,
should probably be reminded by a note in UPDATING.   


The con side is that if you're updating to a PRERELEASE, you're more a
tester and/or developer as it's probably not a good idea to update to it
on a production server.

Having said this, I can smugly say that I wasn't bitten by it, because I
learned my lesson the last time, and have a little installworld.sh
script that runs mergemaster -p before doing installworld.  I'm also too
lazy to submit a patch for UPDATING, and will just say, Hey Warner or
someone, you oughta put a note about it in there. 

All whimsicality aside, this sort of thing is the reason that it really
is better to not skip mergemaster -p before doing installworld--if
there's nothing for it to do, it only takes a minute, even on a slower
machine.


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Thanks muchly to Scott, Torfinn and Patrick for the quick replies.

This machine was running:

6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #0: Sun Feb 12 11:37:04 EST 2006

Since it was this new, it was updated with a make world and the error did not
appear in the process where I first thought it did -at link time for sshd..

It appeared at the end of the make world, which resembled more closely
the output of buildworld fwiw -I'll go add the group now :)

thanks agn

-kim

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On Sat, 2006-Mar-11 17:13:58 -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:
>In fairness, many folks often skip mergemaster -p without ill effect
>till something like this happens. 
Note that "mergemaster -p" also checks the options in your
/etc/make.conf
and whilst changes to supported options are also rare, missing a change
could have far more subtle effects than installworld failing.

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This was discussed on this list a few days ago...

You forgot to run mergemaster -p before installworld didn't you? :)
This adds the relevant group to /etc/groups.

Graham

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Subject: -stable make world: ERROR: Required audit group is missing,see
/usr/src/UPDATING

Subject says it all.. nothing in UPDATING regarding audit group.

Appears to have been in the process of linking sshd

This src is RELENG_6 cvsup'd ~1930 UTC this date

Any help is greatly appreciated

-kim

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