From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 22 10:39:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFEBA16A40F for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 10:39:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mpope@teksavvy.com) Received: from ironport-out.pppoe.ca (ironport-out.pppoe.ca [206.248.154.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54E4F43D49 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 10:39:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mpope@teksavvy.com) Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca ([65.39.192.132]) by ironport-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 22 Oct 2006 06:39:24 -0400 X-BrightmailFiltered: true X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-IronPort-AV: i="4.09,338,1157342400"; d="scan'208"; a="49158199:sNHT16132872" Received: from [10.1.1.173] ([69.28.228.189]) by smtp.pppoe.ca (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id AUJ15224 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 06:39:24 -0400 Message-ID: <453B4ACD.1070802@teksavvy.com> Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 06:41:17 -0400 From: Matthew Pope User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: problems after rebuild of 5.5 stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 10:39:25 -0000 Hello, I have a bit of grey hair, but I've been blessed with working with FreeBSD gurus so much that I am struggling to run my own domain and webserver. That is I have have been co-dependant upon FreeBSD gurus in the past, so I was lazy. I'm now on my own and finding that administering a UNIX system based domain and webserver is rewarding, but requires a lot of technical knowledge. The root of my problem was my 5.4 based system was running out of sockets due to a close early problem, and a problem description I read in the mailing lists did describe something very close, for which the discoverer of the problem provided a patch. Rather than patch, I thought it that since it's been a year, it was time to rebuild the kernel with the latest STABLE release. So I did the rebuild as instructed in the FreeBSD Handbook. Now I'm up to 5-5 STABLE using a default kernel Generic i386 version. The mergemaster step following the rebuild and reboot took me for a ride. Rather I rode free and easy not quite sure what I was doing. I was not sure exactly which file to go with, and I tended to choose t for temp file for many of the prompts. Now my 5.5 kernel boots, but there are a number of messages of the form: source_rc_confs: not found $ipnat_enable is not set properly - see rc.conf(5) $ipfs_enable is not set properly - see rc.conf(5) etc.... My rc.conf includes: routed_enable="YES" router="/sbin/routed" defaultrouter="10.1.1.1" I later read in the mailing list that someone had a simliar problem and solved it by re-running the mergemaster step. I tried that too, and this time I selected answer to all the prompts about conflicts. I rebooted, but I still cannot even ping my gateway, as I'm getting "no route to host". I tried starting routed manually, but still no routes were discovered. I also tried inserting a subroutine into rc.subr that called source_rc_confs that did source the rc.confs, and it is called during boot I see from /var/messages. But alas this is a desperate measure, there must be something I can do to fix this problem without meddling in rc.subr. So my routing is down, which means my dns is down, and most definetely my httpd is down. Any help in debugging, resolving this poorly executed upgrade would be very welcome. Thanks, Matthew