FreeBSD ntpd starting up after upgrade. pwd_mkdb

Here, mergemaster added the ntpd user to /etc/passwd, but for some reason spoiled the password database. I simply ran /usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd and this resolved the issue.

After updating another system, the old ntpd.pid file owened by the 11.2 root user was for some reason left in place and prevented the new ntpd starting up, because the user ntpd had no write permissions to the old .pid file (owned by root). I needed to delete said old .pid file manually and that resolved that issue.


https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/ntpd-not-starting-after-upgrade-to-12-0-release.68758