Trying to install git
in a FreeBSD 12.2 jail produced this error
Turns out it's not unusal, and it probably means that your password database is out of sync with /etc/passwd
.
One solution is to simply run vipw
, save and exit without making any changes.
vipw
natually opens vi
as the editor, once open all you need to do is save & exit using the command :wq
(that's colon, lower case 'w', lower case 'q')
Once returned to the prompt, retry the pkg
command and it should be successful.
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