From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 22 18:14:37 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC29316A404 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:14:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zbyszek@szalbot.homedns.org) Received: from lists.lc-words.com (lists.lc-words.com [83.19.156.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57D8C13C469 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:14:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zbyszek@szalbot.homedns.org) Received: from localhost.168.11.51 ([::1] helo=lists.lc-words.com) by lists.lc-words.com with esmtp (Exim 4.66 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1H93hU-0001st-IZ for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:15:24 +0100 Received: from 192.168.11.7 (SquirrelMail authenticated user zbyszek@szalbot.homedns.org) by lists.lc-words.com with HTTP; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:15:24 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <61775.192.168.11.7.1169489724.squirrel@lists.lc-words.com> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:15:24 +0100 (CET) From: "Zbigniew Szalbot" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.9a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: /etc problems when upgrading to FBSD 6.2 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: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:14:37 -0000 Hello, Today I have tried to upgrade my FBSD 6.1-stable release to 6.2. All went well up to the point when I had to use mergemaster -cv. It was my first encounter with mergemaster and I was a bit unsure what to do with files in /etc. For some that I know I have not customized, I pressed i for install, for some I pressed m, then , then q and i to install the merged files (although - shame on me I was not aware what is acutally being merged - it was a bit too technical and I was a bit too scared :). With some files I pressed d. Anyway, when I rebooted the machine, I found a lot of warnings like this: Loading configuration files source_rc_confs: not found Entropy harvesting:/etc/rc: Warning: $harvest_interrupt is not set properly - see rc.conf(5) /etc/rc: Warning: &harvest_ethernet is not set properly - see rc.conf(5) These warnings were numerous and all of them referred to /etc/rc. The rc.conf file was not changed during the update process. But most services (those listed in warnings) did not start. I had no connection with the outside world and the machine was not pingable. Fortunately, I had a backup of /etc so I moved /etc to /etc-bad, copied the data from backup and rebooted. Everything worked well except the fact that I was forced to boot in single user mode. And I could not change it. It then turned out to be an error in /etc/rc.d/early.sh or a similar file. When I copied it from /etc-bad, I was able to boot normally and enjoy the system. My question is what I messed up? Was this something during mergemaster phase? If not, then what else could have gone wrong? Many thanks for your advice and thanks for FBSD 6.2 :)! Warm regards, -- Zbigniew Szalbot