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From: Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: 7.0-RELEASE amd64 bootonly media fails to use DHCP because of missing passwd entries
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>Number:         124452
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       [install] 7.0-RELEASE amd64 bootonly media fails to use DHCP because of missing passwd entries
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jun 10 17:10:04 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:    Mon Jan 02 15:18:24 UTC 2012
>Last-Modified:  Sun Feb 03 22:27:41 UTC 2013
>Originator:     Garrett Cooper
>Release:        7.0-RELEASE amd64 bootonly
>Organization:
n/a
>Environment:
Can't do this yet..
>Description:
Going through the typical procedures to do a "Custom install" of FreeBSD and when I ask sysinstall to use DHCP to scan for an IP for me it comes back with blank fields and switching over to the output console I see the output:

no such user: _dhcp, falling back to "nobody"
no such user: nobody

So it looks like the amd64 bootonly release media is missing /etc/passwd or some entries contained within /etc/passwd.

My system is a Macbook running the latest VMware Fusion.
>How-To-Repeat:
1. Fetch 7.0-RELEASE amd64 bootonly release media from ftp.freebsd.org.
2. Run installer.
3. Run through all steps in Custom install.
4. Attempt to fetch IP via DHCP when setting up the media.
>Fix:
Entries need to be fixed by release team.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: eadler 
State-Changed-When: Mon Jan 2 15:18:23 UTC 2012 
State-Changed-Why:  
This problem has been resolved in newer versions of the release media 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=124452 
>Unformatted:
