Subject: Reboot / new user problems on 1.3?
To: None <port-amiga@NetBSD.ORG>
From: George Coulouris <glc5@cornell.edu>
List: port-amiga
Date: 03/08/1998 11:56:10
Hello,

I just installed 1.3 on my A3000 (2M chip, 8M fast, ariadne..
20M / , 20M swap, 80M /usr ). I've been having two problems:

1) Reboot code doesn't work. Whether I halt and then reboot,
or just give it C-A-A, the machine just hangs at a gray screen.
It doesn't even make it to the AmigaDOS boot menu.

2) Can't add new users. If I run vipw and add the line

george::101:200::0:0:George:/home/george:/bin/csh

, upon exit I get the following:

/etc/ptmp: 13 lines, 726 characters
pwd_mkdb: corrupted entry
pwd_mkdb: at line #13
pwd_mkdb: /etc/ptmpt: Inappropriate file type or format.

where line 13 is the line I added. Group 200 exists and has 'george' as
a member. /home/george exists, too.

Any ideas on how to fix this behaviour?

-- 
George L. Coulouris - http://www.tc.cornell.edu/~glc5/
NetBSD 1.3 - free, multiplatform unix. http://www.netbsd.org/