Solved pkg update drags in pulseaudio which fails its pre-install script

[byrnejb]

FreeBSD-12.0p3

This AM I ran pkg update and had a extrordinary number of pks to upgrade. When I confirmed the upgrade all the packages up to pulseaudio installed. Pulseaudio invariently fails:

Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
[1/20] Installing pulseaudio-12.2_2...
===> Creating groups.
Using existing group 'pulse'.
Using existing group 'pulse-access'.
Using existing group 'pulse-rt'.
===> Creating users
Creating user 'pulse' with uid '563'.
pw: user 'pulse' disappeared during update
pkg: PRE-INSTALL script failed

1. Pulse audio is not installed so it is being dragged in as a dependency.
2. It is blocking upgrading the packages after this point.

I have selectively upgraded numerious packages to get arounf this. However, I need to know how this problem is properly dealt with.

 

[Vull]

Try running pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd. Refer to https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/required-ntpd-user-is-missing.70004/post-420703 for more background on this.

 

[byrnejb]

Thank you. pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd did solve the problem.