Date: 08 Apr 2006 09:31:11 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [semi-SOLVED] Re: Login broken and rc.conf variables suddenly invalid after kernel/world upgrade (?!?!) Message-ID: <441ww8i480.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <44370C6E.5050702@u.washington.edu> References: <820FAFD6-ED04-41BE-A0C6-209980A7B376@u.washington.edu> <20060407080957.351b13b0.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <Pine.A41.4.64.0604070948530.155262@dante76.u.washington.edu> <4436A3C4.5020505@u.washington.edu> <44acaxp918.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <4436BCE0.402@u.washington.edu> <44370C6E.5050702@u.washington.edu>
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Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> writes: > Garrett Cooper wrote: > > Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > >> Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> writes: > >> > >> > >>> By the way, I also ran mergemaster as shown above. I forgot to > >>> originally include that. > >>> > >> > >> Did you also forget to mention building and installing the new kernel > >> before the reboot? If you actually left that step out, it would > >> explain much of your trouble. > >> > >> > > Yes, I forgot to include that as well. I did that prior to building > > and installing world (and I don't think that would have interfered > > since the kernel is a standalone deal I thought). It's not, and never has been. The documented and officially supported upgrade path is: <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> make buildworld make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE [1] <reboot in single user> [3] mergemaster -p [5] make installworld make delete-old mergemaster [4] <reboot> For other procedures, you're on your own. > Well, I restored a backup of my /etc/ directory and now things appear > to work again (not sure about bash, but the rest works like a > charm). Going to stick to csh and try and make a smarter > buildworld/system sync checking script because I think that the root > of all the problems was the fact that the sources may have been > cvsup'ed while I was building world originally, hence the makefile and > quite a few things may have changed during the build. Well, yes, that could be a problem. To say the least.
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