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Date:      Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:08:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        Darin <derwood@naebunny.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.2.1 boot question
Message-ID:  <20040621170728.E70461@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040619212552.7910E2AD09@bsd.naebunny.net>
References:  <20040619212552.7910E2AD09@bsd.naebunny.net>

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On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Darin wrote:

> I've been working on getting a system ready for my daughter to use, and have
> run into a problem.
>
> The system is running 5.2.1-RELEASE-p8 that was cvsuped yesterday.
>
> The problem was caused by the Kuser app that I installed as part of the KDE3
> port.  For some reason it set all of the accounts on the system to expired,
> including root.  I was able to fix the problem by rebuilding spwd.db and
> pwd.db with pwd_mkdb.  So, I can log on again and su to root to finish up
> any ports that I need to compile in.

This was a known bug with that package build, sadly.  Any recent build
has a fix.

> However, when the machine boots, I get the following on the screen and in
> /var/log/messages:
>
>
> Jun 19 14:17:41 dell1 syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel
> Jun 19 14:17:41 dell1 kernel: term R  *Handler Int

Somewhere you have 'sysctl sysctl' running, which is probably in
/etc/sysctl.conf.  Make sure they're just name=value pairs and not full
sysctl commands.

-- 
Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org



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