Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:15:24 +0100 (CET) From: "Zbigniew Szalbot" <zbyszek@szalbot.homedns.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: /etc problems when upgrading to FBSD 6.2 Message-ID: <61775.192.168.11.7.1169489724.squirrel@lists.lc-words.com>
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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 <enter>, 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
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