acharya@NEON.STANFORD.EDU (Shripati Acharya) (05/31/90)
I get the following error when I run 'wpbuild' for installaing the white pages: Zero-length hist/passwd.outchgZ1483 file Makeboth run FAILED at xx..xx..xx with status 101 This occurs immediately after wpbuild runs 'makeboth' as: (/localdsk/install/etc/makeboth -d -W -M3 -P8 -c wp.cfg -s wp -F -N /afs/.ir.stanford.edu/service/wp hist/passwd.chgZ1483 hist/passwd.outchgZ1483 hist/oldpass hist/newpasswdZ1483 >> wpoutZ1483 ) >>& wperrZ1483 I am trying to install WP on a VAXstation 2000 running ULTRIX. Shripati -------- AIR Stanford University e-mail:acharya@neon.stanford.edu
Craig_Everhart@TRANSARC.COM (05/31/90)
I believe that the hist/passwd.outchgZnnn file should always have non-zero length. The problem with ``wpbuild'' is that it's a shell script, and as such has trouble detecting AFS outages or bad side-effects of being over quota. The supplied hist/passwd.chg file has, I believe, a single comment, and the makeboth program will insist on writing at least one comment to the output file, as it copies hist/passwd.chg to hist/passwd.outchgZnnn (editing it in the process). I'd suggest that you ran out of disk space or quota or something when you were doing a WP build/rebuild operation, and that the ``zero-length hist/passwd.outchgZnnn'' complaint was the only good way that ``wpbuild'' could tell you so. If this was the problem, then once you have some more working room, you should be able to restart your wpbuild run. Craig
Craig_Everhart@TRANSARC.COM (06/04/90)
Makeboth reads two password files: the one you pointed it at, and the one it saved from last time as hist/oldpass. I'd suspect that one of these two files is bogus in one of the following ways: - contains a blank line - contains a malformatted first line that doesn't have exactly seven fields separated by colons, with a non-null pw_name field The complaint about the password files includes the last pw_name field that was read, so that should give you a clue as to where to look. In this case, the pw_name field was null, suggesting to me that the password file line was blank or started with a colon. Might one of these things be the problem? If you're still stumped, you can point me at your work area, if it's in AFS, and I can take a look there. Craig