From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Apr 14 20: 4:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail024.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail024.syd.optusnet.com.au [210.49.20.148]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7302C37B404 for ; Sun, 14 Apr 2002 20:04:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from webmail02.syd.optusnet.com.au (webmail02.syd.optusnet.com.au [203.2.75.235]) by mail024.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g3F348t25683; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 13:04:08 +1000 Message-Id: <200204150304.g3F348t25683@mail024.syd.optusnet.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.411 (Entity 5.404) Received: from [203.13.126.19] as user satare@optusnet.com.au by webmail.optusnet.com.au with HTTP; From: Michael Ross To: Kent Stewart Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 13:04:08 +1000 Subject: Re: Re: mergemaster has locked me out Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Kent Stewart wrote: > > I'm guessing my only recourse is to boot as single user and reset, > > but how to avoid this kind of nastiness? > > > I would try nothing and if that doesn't work, reboot to single user > mode. apologies for this being a "me too" email, but I had the similar problem with my first buildworld, I luckily figured out what happened before I closed my last root shell, so was able to salvage the problem easily. Is there an easy way to just get mergemaster to update the new users in your /etc/passwd files while leaving your existing ones alone? thanks Michael Ross satare@optusnet.com.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message