Difficulty with user accounts

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I was installing mpd when it bailed throwing an error because
Code: 
/: write failed, filesystem is full
pwd_mkdb: /etc/pwd.db to /etc/pwd.db.tmp: No space left on device
pw: passwd file update: No such file or directory
*** Error code 74

Stop in /usr/ports/audio/musicpd.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/audio/musicpd.
i ran df -h to check my filesystems and got

Code: 
fbsdbox1# df -h
Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad4s1a    496M    491M    -35M   108%    /
devfs          1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
/dev/ad4s1e    496M    2.0M    454M     0%    /tmp
/dev/ad4s1f     88G    7.6G     73G     9%    /usr
/dev/ad4s1d    3.9G    173M    3.4G     5%    /var
linprocfs      4.0K    4.0K      0B   100%    /usr/compat/linux/proc

i attempted to make clean install again and an error popped up telling me the the user mpd already existed.
This is where i run into trouble aside from the 108% capacity and the -35M Availible despite the fact that i should still have 5MB left.
Code: 
pw: user 'mpd' already exists
*** Error code 74

Stop in /usr/ports/audio/musicpd.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/audio/musicpd.
fbsdbox1# pw add user mpd
pw: user 'mpd' already exists
fbsdbox1# pw del user mpd
pw: no such user `mpd'
this simply makes no sense to me and i have no idea how to proceed.
thanks in advance for the help
 
Regain free space on / by removing *.symbols in your kernel directory
# rm -rf /boot/kernel/*.symbols

If 'mpd' exists in master.passwd you could delete the entry and then
# cap_mkdb /etc/master.passwd
before [re]installing mpd again.
 
Make some room in the root partition, for example by removing all the symbols files in the /boot/kernel/ directory. Also make sure you don't have too much stuff in /root.

% du -xh /
will help you see what's taking up all the disk space.
 
look before I leap

what are these symbol files and why can i delete them with impunity?
just a link to somewhere that explains them would be fine.
I deleted several files from root that i had no need for and freed up enough room so that there was no longer a space limitation but even after removing the mpd entry using cap_mkdb the install still hangs saying that mpd exists.
 
A search for FreeBSD kernel debugging symbols should get you started.

Sorry, # pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd instead of cap_mkdb.
 
It is still throwing an error message about mpd already being there. Should I reboot or load something after I reset the password db. there is no trace of mpd in /etc/master.pwd and I ran pwd_mkdb.
 
Rebooting shouldn't be a problem. If 'mpd' persists to be a problem you could move /etc/pwd.db and try running # pwd_mkdb on /etc/master.passwd again.
 
that didn't seem to help either. still gives the error. I really don't know what's going wrong.
 
Either run rmuser(8) on the mpd user, or simply delete it from /etc/master.passwd (and probably from /etc/group), followed by a [cmd=]cd /etc && pwd_mkdb -p master.passwd[/cmd]
 
I ran rmuser on mpd and the user doesn't exist in the password database but i knew that because i deleted the entry and also removed the group separately. The group caused no problems but pw still says that there both is and isn't a mpd user.
 
Again: delete it from /etc/master.passwd, followed by a cd /etc && pwd_mkdb -p master.passwd

When both master.passwd and passwd (rebuilt by above command) do not have an mpd user, there's no reason for anything to assume that there is.
 
And yet...

it persists
Code: 
fbsdbox1# cd /etc
fbsdbox1# pwd_mkdb -p master.passwd
fbsdbox1# cd /usr/port/audio/musicp
/usr/port/audio/ not found

fbsdbox1# cd /usr/ports/audio/musicpd/ && make install clean
===>  Installing for musicpd-0.15.12_1
===>   musicpd-0.15.12_1 depends on executable: pkg-config - found
===>   musicpd-0.15.12_1 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/gio/modules/libgiofam.so - found
===>   musicpd-0.15.12_1 depends on shared library: mad.2 - found
===>   musicpd-0.15.12_1 depends on shared library: curl.6 - found
===>   musicpd-0.15.12_1 depends on shared library: FLAC.10 - found
===>   musicpd-0.15.12_1 depends on shared library: vorbis.4 - found
===>   musicpd-0.15.12_1 depends on shared library: faad.2 - found
===>   musicpd-0.15.12_1 depends on shared library: mp3lame.0 - found
===>   musicpd-0.15.12_1 depends on shared library: audiofile.0 - found
===>   musicpd-0.15.12_1 depends on shared library: zzip.13 - found
===>   musicpd-0.15.12_1 depends on shared library: iso9660.7 - found
===>   musicpd-0.15.12_1 depends on shared library: avcodec.1 - found
===>   musicpd-0.15.12_1 depends on shared library: avformat - found
===>   musicpd-0.15.12_1 depends on shared library: avutil.1 - found
===>   musicpd-0.15.12_1 depends on shared library: mms.0 - found
===>   musicpd-0.15.12_1 depends on shared library: id3tag.0 - found
===>   musicpd-0.15.12_1 depends on shared library: pulse.0 - found
===>   musicpd-0.15.12_1 depends on shared library: shout.5 - found
===>   musicpd-0.15.12_1 depends on shared library: glib-2.0.0 - found
===>   Generating temporary packing list
===>  Checking if audio/musicpd already installed
===> Creating users and/or groups.
Using existing group `mpd'.
Creating user `mpd' with uid `137'.
pw: group `137' does not exist
*** Error code 67

Stop in /usr/ports/audio/musicpd.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/audio/musicpd.
/etc/master.passwd
Code: 
# $FreeBSD: src/etc/master.passwd,v 1.40.22.1.4.1 2010/06/14 02:09:06 kensmith E
xp $
#
root:$1$YDO5w0A2$W2yV.VHMJUqryVr71s5jD1:0:0::0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh
toor:*:0:0::0:0:Bourne-again Superuser:/root:
daemon:*:1:1::0:0:Owner of many system processes:/root:/usr/sbin/nologin
operator:*:2:5::0:0:System &:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
bin:*:3:7::0:0:Binaries Commands and Source:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
games:*:7:13::0:0:Games pseudo-user:/usr/games:/usr/sbin/nologin
news:*:8:8::0:0:News Subsystem:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
man:*:9:9::0:0:Mister Man Pages:/usr/share/man:/usr/sbin/nologin
sshd:*:22:22::0:0:Secure Shell Daemon:/var/empty:/usr/sbin/nologin
smmsp:*:25:25::0:0:Sendmail Submission User:/var/spool/clientmqueue:/usr/sbin/no
login
mailnull:*:26:26::0:0:Sendmail Default User:/var/spool/mqueue:/usr/sbin/nologin
bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
proxy:*:62:62::0:0:Packet Filter pseudo-user:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
_pflogd:*:64:64::0:0:pflogd privsep user:/var/empty:/usr/sbin/nologin
_dhcp:*:65:65::0:0:dhcp programs:/var/empty:/usr/sbin/nologin
uucp:*:66:66::0:0:UUCP pseudo-user:/var/spool/uucppublic:/usr/local/libexec/uucp
/uucico
pop:*:68:6::0:0:Post Office Owner:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
www:*:80:80::0:0:World Wide Web Owner:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
nobody:*:65534:65534::0:0:Unprivileged user:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
conor:$1$9laPfU0q$wQZTPD3y.mrlo3pD.sLRf0:1001:0::0:0:User &:/home/conor:/usr/loc
al/bin/zsh
messagebus:*:556:556::0:0:D-BUS Daemon User:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
polkit:*:562:562::0:0:PolicyKit User:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
haldaemon:*:560:560::0:0:HAL Daemon User:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
avahi:*:558:558::0:0:Avahi Daemon User:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
pulse:*:563:563::0:0:PulseAudio System User:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
 
The last error message is group related, even if master.passwd, pwd_mkdb etc. are fine.

Tried a:

getent passwd
getent group

And checked the output ? The manually created a "test" group to see if the command runs without problems ?
 
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