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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: [help] Password crash!
Date: 3 Nov 1996 16:52:20 GMT
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comlab@taeback.kornet.nm.kr (DongHo Lee (kornet)) wrote:

> 1. I can't login with root, including other acccounts.
>  when I do login, the following message show.
> 
>   -- comlab6: /etc/spwd.db : inappropriate type or format... --

Run ``pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd'', this will recreate the
.db files.

> 2. I can't mount CD-ROM( E-IDE type)

There's not much chances except of upgrading to a newer version.  You
might want to pick up the bootfloppy of a newer SNAP, just to see
whether it will recognize your drive.

If this works, you've got two possibilities: install such a SNAP,
which might cause you some problems because SNAPs are not releases,
but beta-quality offspin `products' from the normal development cycle.

Or, if you hesitate this but are patient enough, wait another couple
of months in the hope that FreeBSD 2.2 will be ready then.  This is
our #1 goal these days... i'm just cutting a pre-release on my machine
(something like a private `alpha' version).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)